Animating Empire - Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World

About the author

Jessica Keating is Assistant Professor of Art History at Carleton College.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Keating, Jessica (Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art Keating
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2018
• EAN: 9780271080024
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08002-4
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 1043 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Germany, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, ART / European, ART / Art & Politics, Holy Roman Empire, History of engineering and technology, Antique clocks, watches, musical boxes & automata, History of engineering & technology, Antique clocks, musical boxes and automata, Instruments & instrumentation engineering, ART / History / European / Renaissance, Instruments and instrumentation