Fifty years of medieval technology and social change / [edited by] Steven A. Walton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walton, Steven A., editor.

Series:

AVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art.

AVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology and civilization.

Civilization, Medieval.

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

List of figures

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction and bibliography of works by Lynn White, Jr.

2 Does the history of technology stand on the shoulders of giants?

3 Lynn White's "Roots" and Medieval Technology and Social Change: the view from outside medieval studies

4 Determined disjunction: Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change then and now

5 Of cranks and crankshafts: Lynn White, Jr. and the curious question of mechanical power transmission

6 A Romanesque box hoist in Liège: a possible precursor of medieval tower-clock frames?

7 Industrial milling and the prolific growth of the Cistercian order in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

8 Cistercian nuns and forest management in northern France

9 Cold, rain, and famine: three subsistence crises in the Burgundian Low Countries during the fifteenth century

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

White, Lynn, Jr., 1907-1987. Medieval technology and social change.

ISBN:

1-317-13539-3

1-317-13540-7

1-315-58231-7

9781315582313

OCLC:

1097365542