Review of Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen, Laura Katrine Skinnebach, and Henning Laugerud (eds.), Animation Between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics: Principles of Life in Medieval Imagery By Carole Cusack and Henning Laugerud

https://www.academia.edu/145569575/Review_of_Hans_Henrik_Lohfert_J%C3%B8rgensen_Laura_Katrine_Skinnebach_and_Henning_Laugerud_eds_Animation_Between_Magic_Miracles_and_Mechanics_Principles_of_Life_in_Medieval_Imagery?email_work_card=title The most exciting book in medieval studies that I read in 2015 was Elly R. Truitt’s Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature and Art (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). This excellent co-authored volume by Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen, Laura Katrine Skinnebach and Henning Laugerud treats much the same subject matter, but approaches it from the methodological frame of animism, and is beautifully illustrated so that readers can see how the images, statues, machines, and other representations imitated life. ...