This is the first of three planned volumes which deal with the techniques and technology of agriculture in Europe in the period from 600 A.D. down to the 17th c

Explores the cultural framework within which changes in agricultural technology and economic organization occur and the ways in which changes in the social fabr

This is the first of three planned volumes which deal with the techniques and technology of agriculture in Europe in the period from 600 A.D. down to the 17th c

The Ruralia, Volume 10, includes 27 papers dealing with agrarian technologies in the medieval landscape as seen in different European countries. The subject are

While the medieval period is often written off as a backward and benighted era, it was, in fact, marked by advances in wind and water power, agriculture, naviga