Medieval Robots : : Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art / / E. R. Truitt.
A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct wh...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Middle Ages Series
|
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 36 color illus. |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9780812291407 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)451285 (OCoLC)907964739 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Truitt, E. R., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Medieval Robots : Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art / E. R. Truitt. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (296 p.) : 36 color illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Middle Ages Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Persistence of Robots: An Archaeology of Automata -- Chapter 1. Rare Devices: Geography and Technology -- Chapter 2. Between Art and Nature: Natura artifex, Neoplatonism, and Literary Automata -- Chapter 3. Talking Heads: Astral Science, Divination, and Legends of Medieval Philosophers -- Chapter 4. The Quick and the Dead: Corpses, Memorial Statues, and Automata -- Chapter 5. From Texts to Technology: Mechanical Marvels in Courtly and Public Pageantry -- Chapter 6. The Clockwork Universe: Keeping Sacred and Secular Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, inexplicable cosmic forces, or demonic powers, these marvelous fabrications raised fundamental questions about knowledge, nature, and divine purpose in the Middle Ages.Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. Chronicled in romances and song as well as histories and encyclopedias, medieval automata were powerful cultural objects that probed the limits of natural philosophy, illuminated and challenged definitions of life and death, and epitomized the transformative and threatening potential of foreign knowledge and culture. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture and demonstrates the striking similarities between medieval and modern robotic and cybernetic visions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Automata History To 1500. Civilization, Medieval. Imagination History To 1500. Machine theory History To 1500. Magic History To 1500. Mechanical engineering History To 1500. Mechanical toys History To 1500. Nature and civilization History To 1500. Robots History To 1500. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. HISTORY / Medieval. bisacsh History. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 9783110439687 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2015 9783110438635 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015 9783110665932 print 9780812246971 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291407 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812291407 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812291407.jpg |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Truitt, E. R., Truitt, E. R., |
spellingShingle |
Truitt, E. R., Truitt, E. R., Medieval Robots : Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art / The Middle Ages Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Persistence of Robots: An Archaeology of Automata -- Chapter 1. Rare Devices: Geography and Technology -- Chapter 2. Between Art and Nature: Natura artifex, Neoplatonism, and Literary Automata -- Chapter 3. Talking Heads: Astral Science, Divination, and Legends of Medieval Philosophers -- Chapter 4. The Quick and the Dead: Corpses, Memorial Statues, and Automata -- Chapter 5. From Texts to Technology: Mechanical Marvels in Courtly and Public Pageantry -- Chapter 6. The Clockwork Universe: Keeping Sacred and Secular Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
author_facet |
Truitt, E. R., Truitt, E. R., |
author_variant |
e r t er ert e r t er ert |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Truitt, E. R., |
title |
Medieval Robots : Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art / |
title_sub |
Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art / |
title_full |
Medieval Robots : Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art / E. R. Truitt. |
title_fullStr |
Medieval Robots : Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art / E. R. Truitt. |
title_full_unstemmed |
Medieval Robots : Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art / E. R. Truitt. |
title_auth |
Medieval Robots : Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Persistence of Robots: An Archaeology of Automata -- Chapter 1. Rare Devices: Geography and Technology -- Chapter 2. Between Art and Nature: Natura artifex, Neoplatonism, and Literary Automata -- Chapter 3. Talking Heads: Astral Science, Divination, and Legends of Medieval Philosophers -- Chapter 4. The Quick and the Dead: Corpses, Memorial Statues, and Automata -- Chapter 5. From Texts to Technology: Mechanical Marvels in Courtly and Public Pageantry -- Chapter 6. The Clockwork Universe: Keeping Sacred and Secular Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
title_new |
Medieval Robots : |
title_sort |
medieval robots : mechanism, magic, nature, and art / |
series |
The Middle Ages Series |
series2 |
The Middle Ages Series |
publisher |
University of Pennsylvania Press, |
publishDate |
2015 |
physical |
1 online resource (296 p.) : 36 color illus. Issued also in print. |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Persistence of Robots: An Archaeology of Automata -- Chapter 1. Rare Devices: Geography and Technology -- Chapter 2. Between Art and Nature: Natura artifex, Neoplatonism, and Literary Automata -- Chapter 3. Talking Heads: Astral Science, Divination, and Legends of Medieval Philosophers -- Chapter 4. The Quick and the Dead: Corpses, Memorial Statues, and Automata -- Chapter 5. From Texts to Technology: Mechanical Marvels in Courtly and Public Pageantry -- Chapter 6. The Clockwork Universe: Keeping Sacred and Secular Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
isbn |
9780812291407 9783110439687 9783110438635 9783110665932 9780812246971 |
callnumber-first |
T - Technology |
callnumber-subject |
TJ - Mechanical Engineering and Machinery |
callnumber-label |
TJ211 |
callnumber-sort |
TJ 3211 T74 42015 |
genre_facet |
To 1500. |
era_facet |
To 1500. |
url |
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291407 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812291407 https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812291407.jpg |
illustrated |
Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
600 - Technology |
dewey-tens |
620 - Engineering |
dewey-ones |
629 - Other branches of engineering |
dewey-full |
629.8 |
dewey-sort |
3629.8 |
dewey-raw |
629.8 |
dewey-search |
629.8 |
doi_str_mv |
10.9783/9780812291407 |
oclc_num |
907964739 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT truitter medievalrobotsmechanismmagicnatureandart |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)451285 (OCoLC)907964739 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2015 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015 |
is_hierarchy_title |
Medieval Robots : Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 |
_version_ |
1770176426477092864 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>05741nam a22009495i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9780812291407</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20210830012106.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">210830t20152015pau fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)979910552</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780812291407</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.9783/9780812291407</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)451285</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)907964739</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">pau</subfield><subfield code="c">US-PA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">TJ211</subfield><subfield code="b">.T74 2015</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HIS037010</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">629.8</subfield><subfield code="2">23</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Truitt, E. R., </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Medieval Robots :</subfield><subfield code="b">Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art /</subfield><subfield code="c">E. R. Truitt.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Philadelphia : </subfield><subfield code="b">University of Pennsylvania Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2015]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2015</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (296 p.) :</subfield><subfield code="b">36 color illus.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">The Middle Ages Series</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Abbreviations -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Introduction. The Persistence of Robots: An Archaeology of Automata -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 1. Rare Devices: Geography and Technology -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 2. Between Art and Nature: Natura artifex, Neoplatonism, and Literary Automata -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 3. Talking Heads: Astral Science, Divination, and Legends of Medieval Philosophers -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 4. The Quick and the Dead: Corpses, Memorial Statues, and Automata -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 5. From Texts to Technology: Mechanical Marvels in Courtly and Public Pageantry -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 6. The Clockwork Universe: Keeping Sacred and Secular Time -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Notes -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Bibliography -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgments</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, inexplicable cosmic forces, or demonic powers, these marvelous fabrications raised fundamental questions about knowledge, nature, and divine purpose in the Middle Ages.Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. Chronicled in romances and song as well as histories and encyclopedias, medieval automata were powerful cultural objects that probed the limits of natural philosophy, illuminated and challenged definitions of life and death, and epitomized the transformative and threatening potential of foreign knowledge and culture. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture and demonstrates the striking similarities between medieval and modern robotic and cybernetic visions.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="530" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Issued also in print.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Automata</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="d">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Civilization, Medieval.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Imagination</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="v">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Imagination</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="y">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Machine theory</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="y">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Magic</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="v">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Magic</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="y">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Mechanical engineering</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="v">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Mechanical engineering</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="y">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Mechanical toys</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="v">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Mechanical toys</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="y">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Nature and civilization</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="v">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Nature and civilization</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="y">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Robots</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="v">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Robots</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="y">To 1500.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Medieval and Renaissance Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HISTORY / Medieval.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Medieval and Renaissance Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110439687</subfield><subfield code="o">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE History 2015</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110438635</subfield><subfield code="o">ZDB-23-DEG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110665932</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9780812246971</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291407</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812291407</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812291407.jpg</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-066593-2 University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015</subfield><subfield code="c">2014</subfield><subfield code="d">2015</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_HICS</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_HICS</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DEG</subfield><subfield code="b">2015</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="b">2015</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |