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Animating Empire:

Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World
  • ISBN-13: 9780271080024
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jessica Keating
  • Price: AUD $152.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/2018
  • Format: Hardback 184 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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Recounts the histories of German clockwork automata, which were given as gifts and collected in the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Mughal Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Early Modern Automata: An Abridged History

2. Ever More Variations on the Imperial Theme at the Court of Rudolf II

3. The Gifts That Keep on Giving

4. A Figure of Speech

5. Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomatic Machinery

6. Metamorphosis at the Mughal Court

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index


Animating Empire stands to play a significant role in rethinking the different ways that ‘mobility’ registers in the visual and material culture of the early modern world.”

—Shira Brisman, caa.reviews

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