IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1733: In Honour of Richard Holt, III: Of Mills and Medieval Technology
Thursday 5 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | ‘Creating the New North’ Research Programme, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet |
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Organiser: | Stefan Figenschow, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet |
Moderator/Chair: | Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Department of History, Durham University |
Paper 1733-a | Resistance and Recidivism in Scholarly Attitudes toward Technological Change in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Technology |
Paper 1733-b | Scholastics and Humanists on the Medieval Technological Revolution (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Mentalities, Technology |
Paper 1733-c | Discovering the Plough in John Whethamstede's Invenire (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Monasticism, Technology |
Paper 1733-d | Vitruvius and Mills in the Low Countries (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Technology |
Abstract | The criticism of two widely-held theories of technological change during the Middle Ages is outlined. How has this criticism been acknowledged and integrated into subsequent medieval and history of technology scholarship? The medieval technological revolution is well developed by modern scholars, but did the intelligentsia of the 14th to 16th centuries really recognize or understand what was happening to their world? John Whethamstede's discussion of the plough's origins, including six possible inventors for it, in Invenire, part of his encyclopaedic Granarium is examined. Finally, in what respects and in what ways Vitruvius' work De architectura influenced the development of mills in the Low Countries from the 15th to the early 17th centuries is addressed. |