Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia

by Thomas F. Glick

Glick has drawn on original documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to present in this volume a thorough and lively study of Valencian irrigation and society. In Part One Glick describes medieval Valencian irrigation in the epoch of its fullest documentation (1238-4500). Part Two is concerned generally with the spread of Islamic irrigation technology and, more specifically, with cultural diffusion and the persistence of cultural forms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674281799
• ISBN13: 9780674281790
• Release Date: February 1970
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"