Working with water in medieval Europe : technology and resource-use / / editor, Paolo Squatriti

• Pubblicazione: Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 446 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 627/.094/0902
• Soggetto topico: Hydraulic engineering - Europe - History; Middle Ages
• Altri autori: SquatritiPaolo <1963->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-435) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Working with water in medieval Europe
• ISBN: 1-280-46396-1; 9786610463961; 1-4175-7342-2; 90-474-0011-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783472103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Technology and change in history ; ; 3.