Document Type
Article
Version
Author's Final Manuscript
Publication Title
postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies
Volume
1
Publication Date
3-2010
Abstract
While automata appear in medieval European textual sources in many different settings, they frequently cluster around tombs, memorials and other places associated with the dead. In several different literary examples, automata expose the unstable definitions of ‘life’ and ‘death’ and reveal contemporary ideas about the complexity and permeability of these categories.
Publisher's Statement
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: http://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2010.21.
Citation
Truitt, E.R. 2010. Fictions of life and death: Tomb automata in medieval romance. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 1.1: 194-198.
DOI
http://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2010.21