Wind, water, work : ancient and medieval milling technology
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Wind, water, work : ancient and medieval milling technology
(Technology and change in history, v. 8)
Brill, 2006
Available at 14 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-418) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is the most comprehensive empirical study to date of the social and technical aspects of milling during the ancient and medieval periods.
Drawing on the latest archaeological evidence and historical studies, the book examines the chronological development and technical details of handmills, beast mills, watermills and windmills from the first millennium BCE to c. 1500. It discusses the many and varied uses to which mills were turned in the civilisations of Rome, China, Islam and Europe, and the many types of mill that existed.
The book also includes comparative regional studies of the social and economic significance of milling, and tackles several important historiographical issues, such as whether technological stagnation was a characteristic of late Antiquity, whether there was an "industrial revolution" in the European Middle Ages based on waterpower, and how contemporary studies in the social shaping of technology can shed light on the study of pre-modern technology.
Table of Contents
List if illustrations/ figures
Figure of sources
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One Agricultural Milling in Ancient and Medieval Societies
1. Milling Technology in the Ancient World
2. Milling Technology in the first millennium CE
3. Tide mills and windmills in the middle ages
4. The costs of construction and maintenance of medieval watermills and windmills
5. The role of monasteries in the development of milling in medieval England
Part Two Industrial Milling in the Middle Ages
6. Was there an industrial revolution in the middle ages based on water-power?
7. Medieval European industrial mills
8. Medieval English industrial mills
9. The medieval Welsh fulling industry
Conclusion
10. The social shaping of milling technology in the pre-modern period
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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