Jessica Keating: 1 book
Animating Empire
Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political...
