Error, Misuse, Failure
Object Lessons From The English Renaissance
If certain objects work well, no one notices them. As with black boxes, their success may be gauged by their relative invisibility -- and this was the indirect goal of the objects that Julian Yates considers here: the portrait miniature, the relic, the privy (flush toilet), the printed text, and the priest-hole (a secret hiding place for Catholic priests in Protestant England).Because each of these contrivances was prone to error, misuse, and sometimes catastrophic failure, they become in Yates's analysis an occasion for recasting the history of the English Renaissance as object lessons -- knowing from the point of view of the known. It is t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8166-3962-5
- EAN: 9780816639625
- Produktnummer: 1596015
- Verlag: University Of Minnesota Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 366 g
- Abbildungen: 25 halftones, 1 line drawing
- Gewicht: 366
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