Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816639620

ISBN13:9780816639625

Release Date:December 2002

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.6" x 9.2"

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