Medieval Robots by E R Truitt
Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.-
A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry
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The Trotula
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The First Crusade
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Maurice's Strategikon
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Medieval Iberia
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Elf Queens and Holy Friars
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Cities of Ladies
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The Hundred Years War
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William Langland's "Piers Plowman"
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Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
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History of the Lombards
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"Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries
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Christianity and Paganism, 350-750
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That Most Precious Merchandise
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A Medieval Life
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The Chronicle of Theophanes
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Nordic Religions in the Viking Age
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The Fourth Crusade
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Angels and Earthly Creatures
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John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century
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Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London
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Lost Letters of Medieval Life
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Cultures of Power
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Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe
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The Queen's Dumbshows
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Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
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Women in Frankish Society
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The Promised Lands
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Crusade and Christendom
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Last Things
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From Virile Woman to WomanChrist
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The Carolingians
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The Late Byzantine Army
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Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne
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From Boys to Men
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Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
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Poems of the Elder Edda
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The Etablissements De Saint Louis
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Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence
"Medieval Robots is not only a remarkably evocative book, but it also breaks new ground by virtue of being the first survey of its kind in the English-speaking academic world, relocating our discussion of the legacy of ancient automata to novel chronological coordinatesIt is reasonable to hope that Truitt's book will lead to a reconsideration of 'Abbasid patronage of science, magical hermetism, and the nexus of technology and ethnography, among many other themes, not to mention to our understanding of the Middle Ages itself." * Reviews in History *
"Engagingly written and thoughtfully researched, Medieval Robots will be of value to specialists in the intellectual and literary history of the Middle Ages, as well as to more general readers. . . . Truitt's suggestive and nuanced account both firmly establishes the importance of medieval automata in the wider development of Western thought about the relationship of science, technology, and the imagination and opens the door to further research." * American Historical Review *
"The first comprehensive work of scholarship on European automata of the Middle Ages, Medieval Robots systematically and chronologically works through themes such as the transition from the magical to the mechanical and the liminal status of robots between art and nature, familiar and foreign. Well researched and well written, the book does an excellent job of showing the wider cultural significance of automata within medieval history and the history of science." * Pamela O. Long, author of Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance *
"Engagingly written and thoughtfully researched, Medieval Robots will be of value to specialists in the intellectual and literary history of the Middle Ages, as well as to more general readers. . . . Truitt's suggestive and nuanced account both firmly establishes the importance of medieval automata in the wider development of Western thought about the relationship of science, technology, and the imagination and opens the door to further research." * American Historical Review *
"The first comprehensive work of scholarship on European automata of the Middle Ages, Medieval Robots systematically and chronologically works through themes such as the transition from the magical to the mechanical and the liminal status of robots between art and nature, familiar and foreign. Well researched and well written, the book does an excellent job of showing the wider cultural significance of automata within medieval history and the history of science." * Pamela O. Long, author of Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance *
E. R. Truitt is Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812223576 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812223578 |
| Title | Medieval Robots |
| Author | E R Truitt |
| Series | The Middle Ages Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2016-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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