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Title of Journal: Metascience
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Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Constance H Berman
Publish Date: 2015/02/14
Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 417-419
Abstract
Adam Lucas has written another excellent book on medieval history and technology His approach follows in many ways those of John Langdon and Richard Holt whose influence he graciously acknowledges Lucas also continues their challenge to older theories about waterpowered mills What his study adds to theirs is a considerable additional number of medieval monastic and ecclesiastical communities and their mills most of these located in parts of England much less studied earlier Thus he adds considerably to our overall knowledge of milling resources available in England after Domesday and the varied costs of using water and windpowered mills There is much that is good useful and innovative in this studyLucas argues that the conclusions of Marc Bloch’s 1935 article on the advent and triumph of the medieval water mill as a tool of seigneurial oppression cannot be wholly sustained for all of Europe in many places including in parts of England and in the holdings of particular
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