Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature
- Author / Editor
- Lightsey, Scott.
Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xv, 212 pp. 9 b&w illus.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Considers classical and medieval attitudes toward automata and mirabilia as context for analyzing their presence and depictions in late medieval English culture, especially in works by Langland, Chaucer, Gower, and Mandeville. Chapter 2, "Chaucer and the Culture of Commodified Mirabilia," is a revised version of an earlier essay on SqT and FranT (2001). Chapter 3, "Chaucer's Body: The Subject of Technology," discusses how NPT and CYT examine the "spiritual effects of manmade marvels on the human subject," also reflected in Form Age.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
- Former Age.
- Squire and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.