@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt14jxw3m.9,
 ISBN = {9780812246971},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14jxw3m.9},
 abstract = {Th e increasingly elaborate artifice behind Hector’s preserved corpse, from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries, generally mirrors the development of increasingly complex machines during the same period in the Latin West. As we have seen, automata were known in Latin Christendom from the Carolingian period onward, and were understood for much of the medieval period as foreign objects whose creation and operation rested on an understanding of Nature that ascribed hidden abilities to natural objects, the movement of celestial bodies, and demons. Furthermore, the existing hierarchies of knowledge that privileged text-based learning over artisanal know-how insisted on the mastery},
 bookauthor = {E. R. Truitt},
 booktitle = {Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art},
 pages = {116--140},
 publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
 title = {From Texts to Technology: Mechanical Marvels in Courtly and Public Pageantry},
 year = {2015}
}