Wind & water in the Middle Ages : fluid technologies from antiquity to the Renaissance

Folger bibliographic ID: 208869
Folger call number: TJ840.A2 W56 2006
Folger holdings ID: 243851
Accession Number: 222911

General notes

"Publications of the PSU Center for Medieval Studies." Includes bibliographical references and index Table of contents also issued online

Contents

Introduction / Steven A. Walton -- The 'Vitruvian mill' in Roman and medieval Europe / George Brooks -- Mills in medieval Ireland: looking beyond design / Niall Brady -- Waterwheels and garden gizmos: technology and illusion in Islamic gardens / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- The role of the monasteries in the development of medieval milling / Adam Lucas -- Lords' rights and neighbors' nuisances: mills and medieval English law / Janet S. Loengard -- The right to the wind in the later Middle Ages / Tim Sistrunk -- Public and private urban hydrology: water management in medieval London / Roberta Magnusson -- Mills and millers in medieval Valencia / Thomas F. Glick, Luis Pablo Martinez -- John Ball's revolutionary windmill: "The letter of Jakke Mylner" in the English Rising of 1381 / David W. Marshall -- The 'mystic mill' capital at Vézelay / Kirk Ambrose -- Of mills and meaning / Shana Worthen

Extended title: Wind & water in the Middle Ages : fluid technologies from antiquity to the Renaissance / edited by Steven A. Walton
Alternate titles: Wind and water in the Middle Ages

Water-wheels Water mills Windmills

associated with: Walton, Steven A