This volume brings together a series of papers reflecting on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Lynn White Jr.â s Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962), a slim study which catalyzed the study of premodern technology in the English-speaking world.
This volume brings together a series of papers reflecting on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Lynn White Jr.â s Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962), a slim study which catalyzed the study of premodern technology in the English-speaking world.
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AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art
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.
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List of Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Bibliography of Works by Lynn White, Jr. Chapter 2: B.B. Price Does the History of Technology Stand on the Shoulders of Giants? Chapter 3 Elspeth Whitney Lynn White's "Roots" and Medieval Technology and Social Change: The View from Outside Medieval Studies Chapter 4 Steven A. Walton Determined Disjunction: Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change Then and Now Chapter 5 George Brooks Of Cranks and Crankshafts: Lynn White, Jr. and the Curious Question of Mechanical Power Transmission Chapter 6 C.R.J. Currie A Romanesque Box Hoist in Liège: A possible precursor of medieval tower-clock frames? Chapter 7 Christie Peters Industrial Milling and the Prolific Growth of the Cistercian Order in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Chapter 8 Constance H. Berman Cistercian Nuns and Forest Management in Northern France Chapter 9 Chantal Camenisch Cold, Rain, and Famine: Three Subsistence Crises in the Burgundian Low Countries during the Fifteenth Century Index
List of Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Bibliography of Works by Lynn White, Jr. Chapter 2: B.B. Price Does the History of Technology Stand on the Shoulders of Giants? Chapter 3 Elspeth Whitney Lynn White's "Roots" and Medieval Technology and Social Change: The View from Outside Medieval Studies Chapter 4 Steven A. Walton Determined Disjunction: Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change Then and Now Chapter 5 George Brooks Of Cranks and Crankshafts: Lynn White, Jr. and the Curious Question of Mechanical Power Transmission Chapter 6 C.R.J. Currie A Romanesque Box Hoist in Liège: A possible precursor of medieval tower-clock frames? Chapter 7 Christie Peters Industrial Milling and the Prolific Growth of the Cistercian Order in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Chapter 8 Constance H. Berman Cistercian Nuns and Forest Management in Northern France Chapter 9 Chantal Camenisch Cold, Rain, and Famine: Three Subsistence Crises in the Burgundian Low Countries during the Fifteenth Century Index
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