Technology and Society in the Medieval Centuries

Byzantium, Islam, and the West, 500-1300

• Author(s): Pamela O. Long,
• Publisher: American Historical Association
• Pages: 144
• ISBN_10: 0872291324
  ISBN_13: 9780872291324
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Medieval , Social Science / General , Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects ,

Description:... Pamela Long considers the ways in which different medieval cultures, from the Byzantine empire to northern Europe, adopted and transformed technologies according to their own needs. Long introduces readers to recent scholarship and to some of the significant issues in the historiography of medieval technology.