03478nam 22006615 450 991103504580332120251026120402.09783031992391(electronic bk.)978303199238410.1007/978-3-031-99239-1(MiAaPQ)EBC32376193(Au-PeEL)EBL32376193(CKB)41738228200041(DE-He213)978-3-031-99239-1(EXLCZ)994173822820004120251026d2025 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMedieval Mining and Power in Thirteenth-Century Europe Bishop Wanga’s Private Mine Drainage Works /by Jeannette Graulau1st ed. 2025.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2025.1 online resource (300 pages)History SeriesPrint version: Graulau, Jeannette Medieval Mining and Power in Thirteenth-Century Europe Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2025 9783031992384 1. An imperial city takes the audacious Auge River as its guide -- 2. The battle against surface waters -- 3. Fighting the bishop’s tax charges -- 4. Foreign miners battle pit waters -- 5. Bullion for the bishop.Studying mine-drainage works of a medieval principality living through times of war, social turmoil, and land reclamation, this book examines the relation between political power and mineral wealth. It argues that mine-drainage works in Monte Calisio, Trento emerged when violent economic warfare within the upper class created profit horizons that capital seized in the subsoil of the principality. From that moment forward, war against hydrogeological conditions justified the existence of private mining capital in the principality. This book shows that hegemonic powers striving to manage mineral wealth failed to monopolize the forces of economic change that sustained their ground as these forces shifted profit relations. Increased mining rents and profits placed a heavy burden on Prince Bishop Wanga, leading to explosive contradictions concealed in the rise of private mine-drainage works. The book offers an illuminating interpretation of the role mining played in the rise and fall of European resource hegemonies. Jeannette Graulau is Professor of Political Science at Lehman College, The City University of New York.History SeriesEuropeHistory476-1492Human ecologyHistoryEconomic historyChurch historyItalyHistoryHistory of Medieval EuropeEnvironmental HistoryEconomic HistoryChurch HistoryHistory of ItalyEuropeHistory476-1492.Human ecologyHistory.Economic history.Church history.ItalyHistory.History of Medieval Europe.Environmental History.Economic History.Church History.History of Italy.940.902Graulau Jeannette1854483MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9911035045803321Medieval Mining and Power in Thirteenth-Century Europe4451844UNINA