Wind & Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance:
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| Publisher | Arizona Stae University |
| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Languages | English (main text) |
| Medium | Book |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN | 9780866983679 |
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| Scope & content | From: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6778221 A series of essays offering descriptive commentary and analysis of windmills, watermills, water control, and irrigation systems employed in Medieval Europe. The continuity of mill technology and its transfer between Arabic and European cultures is discussed in substantial detail, as are the literary and artistic representations of these technologies, as well as their urban, rural and monastic contexts. Of special note are the early modern adaptations of the medieval technologies of wind and water and their impact on agriculture, the rise of the cities, and emergent national identities. Nicely enhanced with 46 key illustrations, a list of contributors, and an index, "Wind & Water In The Middle Ages" is a body of impressively articulate and seminal scholarship worth of inclusion into any academic library's Medieval Studies reference collection. |
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Accession no. 231794
- Shelf location: F120-WAL
- Notes: Volume 322 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies). Collection of eleven essays variously associated with a 2004 Pennsylvania State University conference, "Wind and Water: The Medieval Mill."
Divisions within this publication
- 1: The Vitruvian Mill in Roman and Medieval Europe (George Brooks)
- 2: Mills in Medieval Ireland: Looking beyond Design (Niall Brady)
- 3: Waterwheels and Garden Gizmos: Technology and Illusion in Islamic Gardens (D. Fairchild Ruggles)
- 4: The Role of the Monasteries in the Development of Medieval Milling (Adam Lucas)
- 5: Lords' Rights and Neighbors' Nuisances: Mills and Medieval English Law (Janet Loengard)
- 6: The Right to the Wind in the Later Middle Ages (Tim Sistrunk)
- 7: Public and Private Urban Hydrology: Water Management in Medieval London (Roberta Magnusson)
- 8: Mills and Millers in Medieval Valencia (Thomas F. Glick and Luis Pablo Martínez)
- 9: John Ball's Revolutionary Windmill: 'The Letter of Jakke Mylner' in the English Rising of 1381 (David W. Marshall)
- 10: The 'Mystic Mill' Capital at Vézelay (Kirk Ambrose)
- 11: Of Mills and Meaning (Shana Worthen).
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