An exploration of the medieval mind as a machine, and how it might be affected and immobiled, in textual reactions to the madness of Charles VI of France.

Introduction: Oxidation Before Oxygen
Of Metal and Men
Une enroullere de sapience: Instituting Princely Virtues at the Court of Charles V
Metaphors of the Body Politic
Le fer en la playe
Alain Chartier's rooil de oubliance
Epilogue: Men Without Machines
Bibliography
Index