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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

… an effort to ‘give intellectual status to technology for the first time’. This study reconsiders the significance of the mechanical arts for schoolmen working in northern France in the twelfth century. It argues that while this category designated a set of everyday technologies, it also had …

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