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Article: Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages.
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- September 22, 1997
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By Frances Gies and Joseph Gies. (New York: Harper Perennial Publishers, 1995. Pp. 357. $14.00.)
The stated intention of this book is admirably fulfilled: "the identification of the main technological elements that entered significantly into medieval European history, their known or probable sources, and their principal impacts" (16). The authors trace the inventory of medieval Europe's now undoubted technological achievement through one introductory and six chronologically ordered chapters that demonstrate not only their remarkably well-informed and articulate mastery of technical detail but also their command of the historiographical issues that continue to ...
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