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课程名称：中世纪浪漫文学的科技 课程概述：中世纪浪漫文学在与东方接触中吸收了工程技术进步，形成了一种“科技神话”的子类型，以回应并激发了当时西欧的转变。这一中世纪科幻文学将基于对中世纪真实技术可能性的观察所构建的元素与永恒存在的恶魔、星象或其他魔法作用力量的怀疑交织在一起。在中世纪文学中，各种自动装置的丰富表现反映了该时期欧洲文化中自动装置的广泛流行，其分析显示出后来的世代从早期世纪中显著的心理转变。课程将探讨这一中世纪文学类型，通过法国中世纪浪漫故事中的自动装置、生命体或其他赋有灵性的雕像和器皿的选择，加深理解。 “科技神话”不仅是一个知识转型的表征，也反映了对各种活动、追求及对潜在现象理解的反思。在虚构文学中，西方思想能够继续探索古代人试图识别、控制及操控宇宙的星体力量，涵盖自然和神圣的领域；在传奇和寓言的无尽舞台上，更完美的机械仆人或恶魔青铜骑士的化身显得尤为可能。然而，尽管这些自动装置在中世纪作家的幻想中被极大地美化，对于当时的观众来说，他们所描绘的奇观似乎都是非常可行的，这种可能性在当时宏伟的宫廷中随处可见的华丽自动装置的短暂展示中得到了验证。在那个机械的杰克曼男孩或机械公鸡敲响时光的世纪，想象力将机械角色引入传奇和其他幻想中并不是一件难事。 该课程适合对中世纪文学及其与科技的关系感兴趣的学员，旨在通过深入分析来提升对这一独特边缘文体的理解。
Medieval romantic literature developed a "techno-mythology" sub-genre in response to and inspired by engineering advances absorbed from contact with the East that were transforming Western Europe in the Middle Ages. In the realm of fictional literature, this Medieval brand of science fiction in literature mingled components ostensibly based upon observation of the possibilities of real technology in the Middle Ages with the ever-present suspicion of a demonological, astral, or otherwise magical operating agent. The profusion of various automata in Medieval literature reflects a widespread popularity of automata in Medieval Western European culture, and its analysis illustrates a perceptible psychological shift by a later age from earlier centuries. This medieval literary genre, with its scope of living or otherwise invested statues and vessels will be explored in a selection of the automata in fiction and fables from the French Medieval romances. The "techno-mythology" itself becomes symptomatic of a period of both intellectual transition as well as reflection upon the activities, pursuits, and understanding of phenomena which persisted on the fringes of possibility. Where else than fictional literature could the Western mind continue to explore the pursuit of the ancients to identify, contain, and manipulate the sidereal forces of the cosmos, natural and divine alike; where else could more perfect robot-servant or demonic-bronze knight be most easily brought to life than within the infinite arena of legend and fable? Nevertheless, however fantastically embellished these automata became in the fantasy of the writers of Medieval fancy, for their audiences, the wonders they described would have seemed all-too-possible, confirmed by even the briefest exposure to the splendid automata which characterized Europe's most splendid courts of the age. In the centuries where the hours were struck in most European centers by mechanical jacquemart-men or marked by mechanical roosters, it was not a great leap of the imagination to insert mechanical characters into legends and other flights of the imagination.
