Overview

A collaborative study of the uses of water and the technologies employed to use it in medieval Europe. Experts on different areas of water use and of the European continent contribute separate studies to it so as to produce the first comprehensive survey of the techniques people used to harness, and defend themselves from, water in western Christendom between 500 and 1500. Each chapter sets the technologies of fishing, land drainage, irrigation, flood control, urban, domestic, and ecclesiastical water supply within a social and cultural context. Of interest to historians of technology and science, social historians, and all medievalists.

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' ...a very valuable volume ' Petra J.E.M. van Dam, Environment and History , 2003.

'.. .a very valuable volume'<br>Petra J.E.M. van Dam, Environment and History, 2003.<br>

Author Information

Paolo Squatriti, Ph.D. (1990) in History, University of Virginia, teaches Medieval European History at the University of Michigan. His publications on Early Medieval Italian History include Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy (Cambridge U.P., 1998).

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