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Fifty years of medieval technology and social change
| Title: | Fifty years of medieval technology and social change Medieval technology and social change |
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| Contributors: | Walton, Steven A., White, Lynn, 1907-1987. |
| Publication Year: | 2020 |
| Series: | AVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art |
| Subject Terms: | Technology and civilization, Civilization, Medieval, Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500 |
| Contents Note: | Introduction and bibliography of works by Lynn White, Jr. / Steven A. Walton -- Does the history of technology stand on the shoulders of giants? / B. B. Price -- Lynn White's "Roots" and Medieval technology and social change : the view from outside medieval studies / Elspeth Whitney -- Determined disjunction : Lynn White's Medieval technology and social change then and now / Steven A. Walton -- Of cranks and crankshafts : Lynn White, Jr. and the curious question of mechanical power transmission / George Brooks -- A Romanesque box hoist in Liège : a possible precursor of medieval tower-clock frames? / C. R. J. Currie -- Industrial milling and the prolific growth of the Cistercian order in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Christie Peters -- Cistercian nuns and forest management in northern France / Constance H. Berman -- Cold, rain, and famine : three subsistence crises in the Burgundian Low Countries during the fifteenth century / Chantal Camenisch. |
| Original Identifier: | 1097366285 on1097366285 |
| Document Type: | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
| Accession Number: | edsram.997008630107905171 |
| Database: | RAMBI |
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