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Journal Article
'Trei poete, sages dotors, qui mout sorent di nigromance': Knowledge and Automata in Twelfth-Century French Literature
2004
Overview
The works I have just noted form by no means the entire corpus of medieval romances and historical narratives in which human automata are mentioned, but this gives an indication of the scope of the presence of such figures in narrative texts.12 Yet despite the fairly common placement of metal people in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century texts, actual automata were quite rare in Europe during this period. The twelfth and early thirteenth centuries saw an influx of texts and artifacts from the Dar al-Islam and the Byzantine Empire into Western Europe-both previously unknown works of ancient philosophers and early Christian writers, and also more recent commentary by Muslim and Jewish scholars.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
