Medieval robots : mechanism, magic, nature, and art / E.R. Truitt.

Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

x, 255 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-239) and index.

Introduction. The persistence of robots: an archaeology of automata -- Rare devices: geography and technology -- Between art and nature: Natura artifex, neoplatonism, and literary automata -- Talking heads: astral science, divination, and legends of medieval philosophers -- The quick and the dead: corpses, memorial statues, and automata -- From texts to technology: mechanical marvels in courtly and public pageantry -- The clockwork universe: keeping sacred and secular time.