Fifty Years of Medieval Technology and Social Change (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science & Art)

ISBN 10: 1472475496 / ISBN 13: 9781472475497

Published by Routledge, 2019

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pp. 210.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fifty Years of Medieval Technology and Social Change (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science & Art)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472475496
• ISBN 13: 9781472475497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.