Manmade marvels in medieval culture and literature /

Manmade marvels of the later medieval courts, animated golden birds, mechanical angels, and other fantastic machines, were not merely amusing distractions, but also agents of social negotiation and political import. In Manmade Marvels, the dancing metal peacocks, animated statuary, and spectacular i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lightsey, Scott (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Temas:
To 1500
Machinery > History > To 1500.
Machinery in literature.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Machines dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
British & Irish history.
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
English literature > Middle English
Machinery in literature
Machinery
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Clever devices
  • By Angel's hand: "Piers Plowman" and London's crowning gesture
  • Chaucer and the culture of commodified Mirabilia
  • Chaucer's body: the subject of technology
  • Monstrous body politic(s): Alexander in the Confessio amantis
  • Craft and idolatry: "Sotylle" devices in Mandeville's Travels
  • Marvelous craft.

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