Fifty Years of Medieval Technology and Social Change

This volume brings together a series of papers reflecting on 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 premodern technology in the English-speaking world.

List of contents

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

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.

Summary

This volume brings together a series of papers reflecting on 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 premodern technology in the English-speaking world.

Product details

• Authors: Steven A. Walton
• Assisted by: Steven A Walton (Editor), Steven A. Walton (Editor), Walton Steven A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2019
• EAN: 9781472475497
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-7549-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art; AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; Europe, European History, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, Medieval History, Historiography, History of Science, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Impact of science & technology on society, History and Archaeology