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Working with water in medieval Europe : technology and resource-use / edited by Paolo Squatriti.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Technology and change in history ; v. 3.
- Technology and change in history, 1385-920X ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hydraulic engineering--Europe--History.
- Hydraulic engineering.
- Middle Ages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 446 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comprehensive survey of the techniques people used to harness, and defend themselves from, water in Western Christendom from 500-1500, each chapter of this volume sets the technologies of fishing, land drainage, irrigation, flood control, and water supply within a social and cultural context.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter One: Waterpower in Medieval Ireland; Chapter Two: Medieval England's Water-Related Technologies; Chapter Three: Hydraulic Engineering in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages; Chapter Four: Water Technology in Medieval Germany; Chapter Five: Medieval Hydraulics in France; Chapter Six: The Technologies of Water in Medieval Italy; Chapter Seven: Hydraulic Systems and Technologies of Islamic Spain: History and Archaeology; Chapter Eight: Medieval Fishing; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-435) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-46396-1
- 9786610463961
- 1-4175-7342-2
- 90-474-0011-9
- OCLC:
- 437160835
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