This article explores the effects of political structure on rulers' monopolistic gains and investment decisions in the context of the medieval milling industry in northern France, 1150–1250. Using Salop's spatial model, this article aims to show that political fragmentation increased investment in watermill construction because it reduced the ...
This book is the most comprehensive empirical study to date of the social and technical aspects of milling during the ancient and medieval periods. Drawing on the latest archaeological evidence and historical studies, the book examines the chronological development and technical details of handmills, beast mills, watermills and windmills …
Milling Monopolies and Lordly Control Bloch argued that seigneurial milling monopolies were virtually ubiquitous throughout medieval France but less pervasive in England. hey persisted until the late eighteenth …
Milling Monopolies and Lordly Control Bloch argued that seigneurial milling monopolies were virtually ubiquitous throughout medieval France but less pervasive in England. hey persisted until the late eighteenth …
In the second part of the book, Lucas concentrates on industrial milling in a few regions of medieval Europe, using recent scholarship on England, Wales, France, and Italy. He questions the extremely influential thesis according to which the second half of the European Middle Ages witnessed an industrial revolution based on waterpower.
The late medieval English milling industry epitomizes one of the most important technical achievements of early societies: the exploitation of wind, water and muscle power for augmenting human endeavours. Through a computerized analysis of the number and variety of mills in England from 1300 to 1540, as well as the technology, practices and …
Fragments of early medieval vertical waterwheels have also been found at Ardcloyne, County Cork, Ireland (c. a.d. 787) and at Belle-Église (c. a.d.930–980) in France. Another French site, at Audin-le-Tiche in northeastern France (c. a.d. 840–960), produced physical evidence for a vertical waterwheel with an original diameter of some 1.4 ...
Updated: June 6, 2023 | Original: April 22, 2010. People use the phrase "Middle Ages" to describe Europe between the fall of Rome in 476 CE and the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th ...
Walking into Petite France, the working class neighbourhood in medieval Strasbourg, there are plenty of examples of craftsmen's and merchant's homes and workshops. Perhaps the most striking of all is the …
post, allowing the whole mill (in these early examples the sails may only have been 2 m long) to be turned into the wind. Smock mills were introduced in the later 16th century, and more substantial tower mills of stone and brick appeared later. This guide deals only with the archaeological evidence for medieval and early post-medieval post-mills.
Millstones for Medieval Manors. Farmer, David L. Agricultural History Review, Vol.40:2 (1992) Abstract. Demesne mills in medieval England obtained their millstones from many sources on the continent, in Wales, and in England. The most prized were French stones, usually fetched by cart from Southampton or ferried by river from London.
In France, Pierre-Théophile Berton invented a system consisting of longitudinal wooden slats connected by a mechanism that lets the miller open them while the mill is turning. The majority of windmills have four sails. ... Wind, Water, Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology, Brill Publishers, p. 65; Dietrich Loann, "Von der ...
Wind, Water, Work. This book is the most comprehensive empirical study to date of the social and technical aspects of milling during the ancient and medieval periods. Drawing on the latest archaeological evidence and historical studies, the book examines the chronological development and technical details of handmills, beast mills, watermills ...
This paper provides a brief overview of the current knowledge concerning medieval fulling mills, but is primarily focused on eliciting further information and …
Watermills: A Key Technology of the Middle Ages. Watermills: A Key Tech in Medieval Europe – Before the Industrial Revolution, various sources of power were used, including slave labor …
Here we present dendroarchaeological results from an exceptional number of structural elements of the Audun-le-Tiche water mill in northern France. Taxonomical identification, tree-ring dating and observations of technical features provide a detailed picture of milling technology as early as the Carolingian period in the mid-9th century.
This paper provides a brief overview of some of the current knowledge concerning medieval fulling mills, drawing on archaeological finds and manuscript evidence from medieval and early modern England, Wales, France, Germany and other parts of Continental Europe.
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Evidence from the medieval milling industry in Northern France (1150-1250) is used to explore effects of political structure on rulers' monopolistic gains and investment decisions. Using Salop's (1979) spatial model as a theoretical framework, we show that investment in watermill construction increased in this period even though political ...
Here we present dendroarchaeological results from an exceptional number of structural elements of the Audun-le-Tiche water mill in northern France. Tax-onomical identification, tree-ring dating and observations of technical features provide a detailed picture of milling technology as early as the Carolingian period in the mid-9th century.
A new type of vertical water mill was developed in the early medieval period. •. All known early medieval water mills in Central Europe show a uniform technical …
a medieval fulling mill at barrowburn on the river coquet 229 The number and diversity of mills in Northumberland, as more generally in mainland Britain, increased in the later medieval and post-medieval periods as waterwheel technology was applied to the production of cloth and metalwork, as well as the milling of grain for bread-flour ...
Adam R Lucas. 2016. This paper provides a brief overview of some of the current knowledge concerning medieval fulling mills, drawing on archaelogical finds and manuscript evidence from medieval and early …
The Carolingian water mill from Audun-le-Tiche represents the common type of early medieval milling facility in the Frankish heartland. It shows a small working platform for the mill building and a drive system consisting of an undershot start-and-float wheel with paddles in single mortise and tenon joints.
The English Medieval Windmill. Windmills abounded in England from the twelfth century onwards. Terence Paul Smith describes how their bodies usually revolved on a vertical post so that the miller could face the sails into the wind. In the earliest Middle Ages milling - where it was not done by hand using quern-stones ('blood-mills', as they ...
The milling machinery was located within a mill-house, which generally reflected the local vernacular style and varied widely in size (compare Figures 5 and 10). Romano-British watermills were probably confined to milling corn, although the . suggestion has been made that some may have powered ore crushers. Medieval watermills also
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Medieval milling and medieval becoming. The county of Kent in southeast England provides an interesting case study for the examination of milling relations. Here, both archaeological and historical evidence suggest that handmilling was particularly persistent. The reason is that in much of medieval England domestic milling was regulated by a ...
First iconographical and written sources for other purposes than milling grain appear in high medieval times (Lucas, 2005). In the further course of the Middle Ages, hammers or mallets, driven by ...