Studies in Medieval Star-Gazing.

Author / Editor
Anderson, Sarah M.

Title
Studies in Medieval Star-Gazing.

Published
Arthuriana 30.3 (2020): 8-49.

Description
Contemplates star-gazing, constellation-making, manuscript compilations as constellations, and other forms of pattern-making in various medieval visual and verbal texts, including Bo, Astro, HF, and WBP, describing Chaucer as someone "interested in the technical instruments of astronomy and its inseparable partner astrology, in cosmological speculation, and in the speculative flying machine of philosophical argument."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Boece
Treatise on the Astrolabe
House of Fame
Wife of Bath and Her Tale