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The Mechanical Arts and Poiesis in the Philosophy and Literature of the Twelfth-Century Schools

Burgon, Anya Erica JaneUniversity of Cambridge2019

… Geoffrey’s work is often considered a summa of medieval thinking about poet-craft. But its recruitment of the mechanical arts to picture theoretical mastery also marks the end – and a reversal – of the lesser-known invocation of mechanica by twelfth-century authors, the one I trace here: which …

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