Working with Water in Medieval Europe: Technology and Resource-Use.; (Technology and Change in History Volume 3)

Squatriti, Paolo (ed)

ISBN 10: 9004106804 / ISBN 13: 9789004106802

Published by Brill, Leiden, 2000

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446pp. Near new condition, covers bright, text clean and binding tight in a like dust jacket which is now in a clear protective mylar sleeve.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Working with Water in Medieval Europe: Technology and Resource-Use.; (Technology and Change in History Volume 3)
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004106804
• ISBN 13: 9789004106802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

A collaborative study of the uses of water and the technologies employed to use it in medieval Europe. Experts on different areas of water use and of the European continent contribute separate studies to it so as to produce the first comprehensive survey of the techniques people used to harness, and defend themselves from, water in western Christendom between 500 and 1500. Each chapter sets the technologies of fishing, land drainage, irrigation, flood control, urban, domestic, and ecclesiastical water supply within a social and cultural context. Of interest to historians of technology and science, social historians, and all medievalists.

About the Author

Paolo Squatriti, Ph.D. (1990) in History, University of Virginia, teaches Medieval European History at the University of Michigan. His publications on Early Medieval Italian History include Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy (Cambridge U.P., 1998).