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 ...

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 ...

This paper provides a brief overview of some of the current knowledge concerning medieval fulling mills, drawing on archaeological finds and manuscript evidence from …

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 …

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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 …

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

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 ...

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 …

ancient and medieval science and technology, the historical sociology of institutions, and the genealogy of the mechanical philosophy. His book, Windy Watery Work: Ancient and …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 ...

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 ...

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 …

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Review: Fortified Mill at Cougnaguet. By Alastair - July 26, 2016. What's not to like about the pure application of turbines, gears and cogs, especially at the cutting edge of engineering, as it was 666 years ago! This medieval mill in a remote location on the river L'Ouysse in the Dordogne, France, is an elegant piece of engineering that ...

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.

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.

ancient and medieval science and technology, the historical sociology of institutions, and the genealogy of the mechanical philosophy. His book, Windy Watery Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology^ will be published by Brill Academic Publishers later this year. The author is grateful to a number of scholars for their assistance with this ...

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 …

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 ...

Leonardo's own work would focus on expanding possible uses for the mill. The water mill, was one of the most important pieces of medieval machinery. Thorkild Schhøler (1989) The Watermills at the Crocodile River: A Turbine Mill Dated to 345–380 a.d., Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 121:2, 133-143