Teaching Method, 1391: Notes on Chaucer's "Astrolabe."

Author / Editor
Cross, J. E.

Title
Teaching Method, 1391: Notes on Chaucer's "Astrolabe."

Published
English: The Journal of the English Association 10, no. 59 (1955): 172-75.

Description
Surveys Astr to identify Chaucer's "teaching method," finding evidence of his attention to teaching "technically-minded small boys" that clashes at times with concern for a wider audience. Considers Astr to be "a dull, intentionally prolix but straightforward treatise."

Chaucer Subjects
Treatise on the Astrolabe
Style and Versification