Wind & water in the Middle Ages
Subtitle: fluid technologies from antiquity to the Renaissance
By: edited by Steven A. Walton.
Contributors: Walton, Steven A.
Series: Penn State Medieval studies -- no. 2; Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies -- v. 322; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) -- v. 322.
Publisher: ACMRS
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tempe, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780866983679
Subjects: Water-wheels -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.; Water mills -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.; Windmills -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Other titles: Wind and water in the Middle Ages
Notes: "Publications of the PSU Center for Medieval Studies."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Steven A. Walton; value: The 'Vitruvian mill' in Roman and medieval Europe / George Brooks; value: Mills in medieval Ireland: looking beyond design / Niall Brady; value: Waterwheels and garden gizmos: technology and illusion in Islamic gardens / D. Fairchild Ruggles; value: The role of the monasteries in the development of medieval milling / Adam Lucas; value: Lords' rights and neighbors' nuisances: mills and medieval English law / Janet S. Loengard; value: The right to the wind in the later Middle Ages / Tim Sistrunk; value: Public and private urban hydrology: water management in medieval London / Roberta Magnusson; value: Mills and millers in medieval Valencia / Thomas F. Glick, Luis Pablo Martinez; value: John Ball's revolutionary windmill: "The letter of Jakke Mylner" in the English Rising of 1381 / David W. Marshall; value: The 'mystic mill' capital at Vézelay / Kirk Ambrose; value: Of mills and meaning / Shana Worthen.