Technology, Society, and Culture in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1300-1600 (Shot Historical Perspectives on Technology)

Ms Pamela O Long

ISBN 10: 0872291200 / ISBN 13: 9780872291201

Published by American Historical Association, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Technology, Society, and Culture in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1300-1600 (Shot Historical Perspectives on Technology)
• Publisher: American Historical Association
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872291200
• ISBN 13: 9780872291201
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This work presents an overview of technology as intrinsic to the culture of late medieval and Renaissance Europe. It includes discussion of agriculture, textiles such as wool, crafts such as ceramics and leatherwork, painting, architecture, mining and metallurgy, printing, military technology, and clocks.

About the Author

Pamela O. Long is a historian of technology who has taught at Barnard College, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University. She has published extensively on late medieval and Renaissance technical authorship. She is the author of Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).