Technology and Society in the Medieval Centuries: Byzantine, Islam, and the West, 500-1300

by Pamela O. Long

Book Overview

Pamela Long considers the ways in which different medieval cultures, from the Byzantine empire to northern Europe, adopted and transformed technologies according to their own needs. Long introduces readers to recent scholarship and to some of the significant issues in the historiography of medieval technology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872291324
• ISBN13: 9780872291324
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: American Historical Association
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.