Book ID: CBB001551108

Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England (2014)

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Lucas, Adam (Author)


Ashgate


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xxii + 414 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

This is the first detailed study of the role of the Church in the commercialization of milling in medieval England. Focusing on the period from the late eleventh to the mid sixteenth centuries, it examines the estate management practices of more than thirty English religious houses founded by the Benedictines, Cistercians, Augustinians and other minor orders, with an emphasis on the role played by mills and milling in the establishment and development of a range of different sized episcopal and conventual foundations. Contrary to the views espoused by a number of prominent historians of technology since the 1930s, the book demonstrates that patterns of mill acquisition, innovation and exploitation were shaped not only by the size, wealth and distribution of a house's estates, but also by environmental and demographic factors, changing cultural attitudes and legal conventions, prevailing and emergent technical traditions, the personal relations of a house with its patrons, tenants, servants and neighbours, and the entrepreneurial and administrative flair of bishops, abbots, priors and other ecclesiastical officials.

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Review Constance H. Berman (2015) Review of "Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 417-419). unapi

Review Sheila Bonde (October 2016) Review of "Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England". Technology and Culture (pp. 1005-1006). unapi

Review Elspeth Whitney (2016) Review of "Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 388-389). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Morris, Andrew M. A.
Macchio, Marina
Sylva Dobalová
Adéla Pokorná
Lucie Strnadová
Shannon Perry
Concepts
Monastic orders
Water mills; water wheels
Mills and milling
Windmills
Science and culture
Technology
Time Periods
Medieval
16th century
18th century
15th century
14th century
Renaissance
Places
England
Germany
Italy
United States
Sicily
Manchester (England)
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