Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills and Mines

ISBN-13: 9780860786702 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 224 str.

Elizabeth Bradford Smith; Michael Wolfe

Opis

These essays seek to dispel the view that medieval people had to toil bereft of technical innovation. The authors show the ways in which the technologies of building construction, manufacture and metallurgy were shaped by forces of culture, social identity, political ambition and the environment.

Recenzje

'A valuable feature of several of these studies is their emphasis on the relations between different craft traditions, and on their symbiosis with the natural environment.' Economic History Review, Vol. LII, No. 1

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; New Perspectives on Medieval Technology and Resource Use Elizabeth Bradford Smith and Michael Wolfe; Stone and Wood: Technological Innovation in High Gothic Architecture, Robert Mark; The Rayonnant Gothic Buttresses at Metz Cathedral, Sergio Sanabria and Kristina Luce; Scale and Scantling: Technological Issues in Large-Scale Timberwork of the High Middle Ages, Lynn T. Courtenay; The Gothic Barn of England: Icon of Prestige and Authority, Niall Brady; Water, Wind, and Muscle: The Archaeology of Water Power in Britain before the Industrial Revolution, David Crossley; ’Advent and Conquests’ of the Water Mill in Italy, Paolo Squatriti; Mechanization and the Medieval English Economy, Richard Holt; Agricultural Progress and Agricultural Technology in Medieval Germany: An Alternative Model, Michael Toch; Iron and Steel: Wood, Iron, and Water in the Othe Forest in the Late Middle Ages: New Findings and Perspectives, Patrice Beck, Philippe Braunstein, and Michel Philippe; Weapons of War and Late Medieval Cities: Technological Innovation and Tactical Changes, Bert Hall; Index.

O autorze

Elizabeth Bradford Smith, Penn State University and Michael Wolfe, Penn State University.