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Manmade marvels in medieval culture and literature

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Manmade marvels in medieval culture and literatureScott Lightsey.
Author:	Lightsey, Scott.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007.
Description:	xv, 212 p. :ill.
Series:	New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subject:	MachineryHistoryTo 1500.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230605640

Manmade marvels in medieval culture and literature
Lightsey, Scott.

Manmade marvels in medieval culture and literature[electronic resource] /Scott Lightsey. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007. - xv, 212 p. :ill. - New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-203) and index.

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.

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 illusions of the romance tradition are disembedded from traditional literary representation as supernatural fictions, and situated in the political culture where mechanical marvels were fashionedto delight courts, garner prestige, and symbolize power. This book provides a synthesis of court politics and technological history, intellectual traditions, and the practices of everyday life. Lightsey restores these marvels to the cultural roles they played as they were created bycraftsmen and consumed by elite culture, invigorating our understanding of the role of craft in embellishing noble lives with the marvelous.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230605640

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230605640doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

473690
Machinery
--History--To 1500.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR275.M27 / L54 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 820.93560902

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