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Political fragmentation, competition, and investment …

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 ...

Wind, Water, Work : Ancient And Medieval Milling …

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 …

The role of the monasteries in the development …

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 …

The role of the monasteries in the development of …

(PDF) Adam Lucas. Wind, Water, Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling

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.

Medieval Mills and Millers: The Grist of Pre-Industrial Europe

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Post-medieval mills and milling, 1540-1750 – The …

Mills in the Medieval Economy : England 1300-1540

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 …

Mills and Milling Technology | Encyclopedia

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 ...

Middle Ages

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 ...

A Walking Tour of the Best Medieval Architecture …

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 …

Mills

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

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.

Windmills and Their Technology since the Middle Ages

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 – Ancient and Medieval Milling …

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 ...

Fulling Mills in Medieval Europe

This paper provides a brief overview of the current knowledge concerning medieval fulling mills, but is primarily focused on eliciting further information and …

Medieval History – Watermills: A Key Tech of the …

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 …

Dendroarchaeological evidence of early medieval water mill …

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.

Fulling mills in medieval Europe, comparing the manuscript …

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.

Medieval & Early Modern Europe Iron & Milling …

Page 4. Medieval & Early Modern Europe Iron & Milling Technology. 1337-1453-During the Hundred Years' War, English and French kings fight for control of France. 1340-Edward III, King of England assumes the French crown. 1347-1351-At least 25 million people die in Europe's "Black Death" (bubonic plague). The Plague reaches Genoa from Crimea.

Political Fragmentation and Investment Decisions: The Milling …

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 ...

Wind, Water, Work: ancient and medieval milling technology (2006)

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.

Dendroarchaeological evidence of early medieval …

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: …

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 ...

Fulling mills in medieval Europe: comparing the …

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 …

(PDF) Dendroarchaeological evidence of early medieval water mill

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 | History Today

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 ...

Medieval Milling France

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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Becoming Through Milling: Challenging Linear Economic …

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 ...

Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: 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 ...