Fifty Years of Medieval Technology and Social Change

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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This volume brings together a series of papers at Kalamazoo as well as some contributed papers inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Lynn White Jr.’s, Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962), a slim study which catalyzed the study of technology in the Middle Ages in the English-speaking world. While the initial reviews and decades-long fortune of the volume have been varied, it is still in print and remains a touchstone of an idea and a time. The contributors to the volume, therefore, both investigate the book itself and its fate, and look at new research furthering and inspired by White’s work. The book opens with an introduction surveying White’s career, with a bibliography of his work, as well as some opening thoughts on the study of medieval technology in the last fifty years. Three papers then deal explicitly with the reception and longevity of his work and its impact on medieval studies more generally. Then five papers look at new cast studies areas where White’s work and approach has had a particular impact, namely, medieval technology studies and medieval rural/ ecological studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-18
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art
Antal sidor:204
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781472475497

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Steven A. Walton is an associate professor of history at Michigan Technological University, having previously taught at the Program in Science, Technology, and Society and the Center for Medieval Studies at Penn State University. He is a former president of AVISTA.

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List of ContributorsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Introduction Bibliography of Works by Lynn White, Jr.Chapter 2: B.B. Price Does the History of Technology Stand on the Shoulders of Giants?Chapter 3 Elspeth WhitneyLynn White’s "Roots" and Medieval Technology and Social Change: The View from Outside Medieval StudiesChapter 4 Steven A. WaltonDetermined Disjunction: Lynn White’s Medieval Technology and Social Change Then and NowChapter 5 George BrooksOf Cranks and Crankshafts: Lynn White, Jr. and the Curious Question of Mechanical Power Transmission Chapter 6 C.R.J. CurrieA Romanesque Box Hoist in Liège: A possible precursor of medieval tower-clock frames? Chapter 7 Christie PetersIndustrial Milling and the Prolific Growth of the Cistercian Order in the Twelfth and Thirteenth CenturiesChapter 8 Constance H. BermanCistercian Nuns and Forest Management in Northern FranceChapter 9 Chantal CamenischCold, Rain, and Famine: Three Subsistence Crises in the Burgundian Low Countries during the Fifteenth Century Index