Author: Richard Bennett
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Category : Flour mills
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: A. Rupert Hall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350017582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.

Author: Adam Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317146476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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This is the first detailed study of the role of the Church in the commercialization of milling in medieval England. Focusing on the period from the late eleventh to the mid sixteenth centuries, it examines the estate management practices of more than thirty English religious houses founded by the Benedictines, Cistercians, Augustinians and other minor orders, with an emphasis on the role played by mills and milling in the establishment and development of a range of different sized episcopal and conventual foundations. Contrary to the views espoused by a number of prominent historians of technology since the 1930s, the book demonstrates that patterns of mill acquisition, innovation and exploitation were shaped not only by the size, wealth and distribution of a house’s estates, but also by environmental and demographic factors, changing cultural attitudes and legal conventions, prevailing and emergent technical traditions, the personal relations of a house with its patrons, tenants, servants and neighbours, and the entrepreneurial and administrative flair of bishops, abbots, priors and other ecclesiastical officials.

Author: Richard Bennett
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Category : Flour mills
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Languages : en
Pages : 816

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Author: University of St. Andrews. Library
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Author: Adam Lucas
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004146490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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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."

Author: Edward John T. Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521329279
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1362

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Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Languages : en
Pages : 942

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