Technology, Society, and Culture in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1300-1600 [Paperback]

This work presents an overview of technology as intrinsic to the culture of late medieval and Renaissance Europe. It includes discussion of agriculture, textiles such as wool, crafts such as ceramics and leatherwork, painting, architecture, mining and metallurgy, printing, military technology, and clocks.This work presents an overview of technology as intrinsic to the culture of late medieval and Renaissance Europe. It includes discussion of agriculture, textiles such as wool, crafts such as ceramics and leatherwork, painting, architecture, mining and metallurgy, printing, military technology, and clocks. It discusses the details of both traditional and innovative technological processes. It also treats the relationships of technology to labor, class, gender, and other aspects of society. It points to significant historiographic issues and includes a bibliography.Series IntroductionIntroduction1. Agriculture and Food Production2. The Wool Industry3. Specialized Crafts and the Transmission of Craft Knowledge4. Painting and Sculpture5. Architecture and Building Construction6. Mining and Metallurgy7. Armaments, Gunpowder, and the Military Revolution8. Clocks and Precision Instrumentation9. Books and Printing10. Labor, Gender, and the Status of CraftworkConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyPamela O. Long is a historian of technology who has taught at Barnard College, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University. She has published extensively on late medieval and Renaissance technical authorship. She is the author of Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).