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Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries and Waterworks After the Roman Empire (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Water Technology in the Middle AgesFocusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in mediaeval cities and monasteries, this is a study of water technology in the Middle Ages. Roberta J. Magnusson challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance.
Full description- Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 04 January 2002
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: History Of Science | History Of Engineering & Technology | Hydraulics & Pneumatics | Water Supply & Treatment | General & World History | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Medieval History
- ISBN 13: 9780801866265 ISBN 10: 080186626X
- Sales rank: 830,949
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Full description for Water Technology in the Middle Ages
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
