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Working with water in medieval Europe : technology and resource-use / edited by Paolo Squatriti

Published
Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2000.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xx, 446 pages) : illustrations, maps
Additional Creators
Squatriti, Paolo, 1963-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter One: Waterpower in Medieval Ireland; Chapter Two: Medieval England's Water-Related Technologies; Chapter Three: Hydraulic Engineering in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages; Chapter Four: Water Technology in Medieval Germany; Chapter Five: Medieval Hydraulics in France; Chapter Six: The Technologies of Water in Medieval Italy; Chapter Seven: Hydraulic Systems and Technologies of Islamic Spain: History and Archaeology; Chapter Eight: Medieval Fishing; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
A comprehensive survey of the techniques people used to harness, and defend themselves from, water in Western Christendom from 500-1500, each chapter of this volume sets the technologies of fishing, land drainage, irrigation, flood control, and water supply within a social and cultural context.
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ISBN
1417573422 (electronic bk.)
9781417573424 (electronic bk.)
9789047400110 (electronic bk.)
9047400119 (electronic bk.)
9004106804 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9789004106802 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1280463961
9781280463969
9786610463961
6610463964
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-435) and index.
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