Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire - Couverture souple

Livre 4 sur 27: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Magnusson, Roberta J.

 
9780801866265: Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire
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ISBN 10 : 080186626X ISBN 13 : 9780801866265
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson explores the systems' technologies—how they worked, what uses the water served—and also the social rifts that created struggles over access to this basic necessity.

Mindful of theoretical questions about what hastens technological change and how society and technology mutually influence one another, the author supplies a thoughtful and instructive study. Archeological, historical, and literary evidence vividly depicts those who designed, constructed, and used medieval water systems and demonstrates a shift from a public-administrative to a private-innovative framework—one that argues for the importance of local initiatives.

"The following chapters attempt to chart a course between the Scylla and Charybdis of technological and social determinism. While writing them, I have tried to strike a balance between the technical and human aspects of medieval hydraulic systems, and to remember that beneath the welter of documents and diffusion patterns, configurations and components, ordinances and expenditures, lie the perceptions, the choices, and often the plain hard work of individual men and women." —from the Preface

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À propos de l?auteur

Roberta J. Magnusson is an associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
080186626X
ISBN 13 
9780801866265
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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