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Titolo: | Working with water in medieval Europe [[electronic resource] ] : technology and resource-use / / edited by Paolo Squatriti |
Pubblicazione: | Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
Disciplina: | 627/.094/0902 |
Soggetto topico: | Hydraulic engineering - Europe - History |
Middle Ages | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910450208203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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