The Medieval Machine

Author : Jean Gimpel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760735831
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Machine written by Jean Gimpel and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The energy resources of Europe and their development -- The agricultural revolution -- Mining the mineral wealth of Europe -- Environment and pollution -- labor conditions in three medieval industries -- Villard de Honnecourt : architect and engineer -- The mechanical clock : the key machine -- Reason, mathematics, and experimental science -- The end of an era.

Author : Jean Gimpel
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Machine written by Jean Gimpel and published by New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This book was released on 1976 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Gimpel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Medieval Machine written by Jean Gimpel and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. R. Truitt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246977
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Robots written by E. R. Truitt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert S. Lopez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521290463
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350 written by Robert S. Lopez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-03-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman and barbarian precedents The growth of self-centered agriculture The take-off of the commerical revolution The uneven diffusion of commercialization Between crafts and industry The response of the agricultural society.

Author : Katharine Breen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677659X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machines of the Mind written by Katharine Breen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Katharine Breen challenges our understanding of how medieval authors received philosophical paradigms from antiquity in their construction and use of personification in their writings. She shows that our modern categories for this literary device (extreme realism versus extreme rhetoric, or novelistic versus allegorical characters) would've been unrecognizable to their medieval practitioners. Through new readings of key authors and works--including Prudentius's "Psychomachia," Langland's "Piers Plowman," Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," and Deguileville's "Pilgrimage of Human Life"--she finds that medieval writers accessed a richer, more fluid literary domain than modern critics have allowed. Breen identifies three different types of personification--Platonic, Aristotelian, and Prudentian--inherited from antiquity that both gave medieval writers a surprisingly varied spectrum with which to paint their characters, while bypassing the modern confusion of conflicting relationships between personifications and persons on the path connecting divine power and human frailty. Recalling Gregory the Great's phrase "machinae mentis" (machines of the mind), Breen demonstrates that medieval writers applied personification with utility and subtlety, much the same way that, within the category of hand-tools, an open-end wrench differs in function from a hex-key wrench or a socket wrench. It will be read by medievalists working at the crossroads of religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as scholars interested in character-making and gendered relationships among characters, readers, and texts beyond the Middle Ages"--

Author : Pamela O. Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and Society in the Medieval Centuries written by Pamela O. Long and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela Long considers the ways in which different medieval cultures, from the Byzantine empire to northern Europe, adopted and transformed technologies according to their own needs. Long introduces readers to recent scholarship and to some of the significant issues in the historiography of medieval technology.

Author : Jean Gimpel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The medieval machine (La révolution industrielle du Moyen Age, engl.) The industrial revolution of the Middle Ages written by Jean Gimpel and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Scheerbart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984115549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perpetual Motion Machine written by Paul Scheerbart and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. For the next two and a half years he would document his ongoing efforts (and failures) from his laundry-room-cum-laboratory, hiring plumbers and mechanics to construct his models while spinning out a series of imagined futures that his invention-in-the-making was going to enable. The Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention, originally published in German in 1910, is an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie: a document of what poet and translator Andrew Joron calls a "two-and-a-half-year-long tantrum of the imagination." Shifting ambiguously from irony to enthusiasm and back, Scheerbart's unique amalgamation of visionary humor and optimistic failure ultimately proves to be a more literary invention than scientific: a perpetual motion of a fevered imagination that reads as if Robert Walser had tried his hand at science fiction. With "toiling wheels" inextricably embedded in his head, Scheerbart's visions of rising globalization, ecological devastation, militaristic weapons of mass destruction and the possible end of literature soon lead him to dread success more than failure. The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery and a battle cry of the imagination against praxis.

Author : Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816693986
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Identity Machines written by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medieval Identity Machines, Jeffrey J. Cohen examines the messiness, permeability, and perversity of medieval bodies, arguing that human identity always exceeds the limits of the flesh. Combining critical theory with a rigorous reading of medieval texts, Cohen asks if the category OC humanOCO isnOCOt too small to contain the multiplicity of identities."