[PDF] Medievalism In Technology Old And New eBook

Author : Karl Fugelso
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843841562

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Medievalism examined in a variety of genres, from fairy tales to today's computer games. As medievalism is refracted through new media, it is often radically transformed. Yet it inevitably retains at least some common denominators with more traditional responses to the middle ages. This latest volume of Studies inMedievalism explores this phenomenon with a special section on computer games, examining digital echoes of the medieval past in subjects ranging from the sovereign ethics of empire in Star Wars to gender identity in on-line role playing. Medievalism in more conventional venues is also addressed, ranging from early French fairy tales to nineteenth-century neo-Byzantine murals. Great innovation and extraordinary continuity are thus juxtaposed not only within each article but also across the volume as a whole, in yet further testimony to the exceptional flexibility and enduring relevance of medievalism. CONTRIBUTORS: ALICIA C. MONTOYA, ALBERT D. PIONKE, GRETCHENKREAHLING MCKAY, CHENE HEADY, BRUCE C. BRASINGTON, STEFANO MENGOZZI, CAROL L. ROBINSON, OLIVER M. TRAXEL, AMY S. KAUFMAN, BRENT MOBERLY, KEVIN MOBERLY, LAURYN S. MAYER

Author : Lynn White (Jr.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195002669

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Bibliography.

Author : Emily Sebastian
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 150810039X

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While the medieval period is often written off as a backward and benighted era, it was, in fact, marked by advances in wind and water power, agriculture, navigation, timekeeping, and military technology. The invention of the printing press near the end of the Middle Ages ushered in the early modern period. The achievements of this era—in particular the fabrication of scientific instruments, the development of commerce, rising urbanization, and the invention of the steam engine—laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution. Readers will be engrossed by this information-packed title and come away with a real understanding of how technology develops over time, building, by fits and spurts, on the technology already in use.

Author : Niall Brady
Publisher : Ruralia
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088908064

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Innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro- and macro-levels. This volume explores how these changes affected how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes.

Author : Donald Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 131776157X

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It is impossible to understand the cultures and achievements of the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Arabs, without knowing something of their technology. Rome, for example, made advances in many areas which were subsequently lost and not regained for more than a millenium. This is a knowledgeable yet lucid account of the wonderful triumphs and the limitations of ancient and medieval engineering. This book systematically describes what is known about the evolution of irrigation works, dams, bridges, roads, building construction, water and wind power, automata, and clocks, with references to the social, geographical, and intellectual context.

Author : Steven A. Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317135393

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This volume brings together a series of papers at Kalamazoo as well as some contributed papers inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Lynn White Jr.’s, Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962), a slim study which catalyzed the study of technology in the Middle Ages in the English-speaking world. While the initial reviews and decades-long fortune of the volume have been varied, it is still in print and remains a touchstone of an idea and a time. The contributors to the volume, therefore, both investigate the book itself and its fate, and look at new research furthering and inspired by White’s work. The book opens with an introduction surveying White’s career, with a bibliography of his work, as well as some opening thoughts on the study of medieval technology in the last fifty years. Three papers then deal explicitly with the reception and longevity of his work and its impact on medieval studies more generally. Then five papers look at new cast studies areas where White’s work and approach has had a particular impact, namely, medieval technology studies and medieval rural/ ecological studies.

Author : Karl Fugelso
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1843844060

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Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages.

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374280878

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Daughter of a poisoned prince and a crafty noblewoman, quiet, bright-minded Hild arrives at the court of King Edwin of Northumbria, where the six-year-old takes on the role of seer/consiglieri for a monarch troubled by shifting allegiances and Roman emissaries attempting to spread their new religion.

Author : Kelly Robert DeVries
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1442604972

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This thorough update of a classic book includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of horses, handguns, incendiary weapons, and siege engines, and new illustrations.

Author : E. R. Truitt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0812246977

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Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.