LEADER 03478nam 22006615 450 001 9911035045803321 005 20251026120402.0 010 $a9783031992391$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031992384 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-99239-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32376193 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32376193 035 $a(CKB)41738228200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-99239-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9941738228200041 100 $a20251026d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMedieval Mining and Power in Thirteenth-Century Europe $eBishop Wanga?s Private Mine Drainage Works /$fby Jeannette Graulau 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (300 pages) 225 1 $aHistory Series 311 08$aPrint version: Graulau, Jeannette Medieval Mining and Power in Thirteenth-Century Europe Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2025 9783031992384 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aStudying mine-drainage works of a medieval principality living through times of war, social turmoil, and land reclamation, this book examines the relation between political power and mineral wealth. It argues that mine-drainage works in Monte Calisio, Trento emerged when violent economic warfare within the upper class created profit horizons that capital seized in the subsoil of the principality. From that moment forward, war against hydrogeological conditions justified the existence of private mining capital in the principality. This book shows that hegemonic powers striving to manage mineral wealth failed to monopolize the forces of economic change that sustained their ground as these forces shifted profit relations. Increased mining rents and profits placed a heavy burden on Prince Bishop Wanga, leading to explosive contradictions concealed in the rise of private mine-drainage works. The book offers an illuminating interpretation of the role mining played in the rise and fall of European resource hegemonies. Jeannette Graulau is Professor of Political Science at Lehman College, The City University of New York. 410 0$aHistory Series 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492 606 $aHuman ecology$xHistory 606 $aEconomic history 606 $aChurch history 606 $aItaly$xHistory 606 $aHistory of Medieval Europe 606 $aEnvironmental History 606 $aEconomic History 606 $aChurch History 606 $aHistory of Italy 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 615 0$aEconomic history. 615 0$aChurch history. 615 0$aItaly$xHistory. 615 14$aHistory of Medieval Europe. 615 24$aEnvironmental History. 615 24$aEconomic History. 615 24$aChurch History. 615 24$aHistory of Italy. 676 $a940.902 700 $aGraulau$b Jeannette$01854483 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9911035045803321 996 $aMedieval Mining and Power in Thirteenth-Century Europe$94451844 997 $aUNINA