Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Survey of the Evidence for an Industrial Revolution in Medieval Europe

@article{Lucas2005IndustrialMI,
  title={Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Survey of the Evidence for an Industrial Revolution in Medieval Europe},
  author={Adam R. Lucas},
  journal={Technology and Culture},
  year={2005},
  volume={46},
  pages={1 - 30}
}
  • Adam R. Lucas
  • Published 7 March 2005
  • History, Economics
  • Technology and Culture
In 1934 and 1935, Lewis Mumford and Marc Bloch published two very different pioneering works in the history of technology, Technics and Civilization and “Avènement et conquêtes du moulin à eau,” the first an ambitious attempt to trace the development of technology in human civilizations over several thousand years, the second a historical overview of the development of milling technology from Greco-Roman times to the end of the Middle Ages.1 What was to prove an extraordinarily influential… 
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