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

Historical Perspectives on Technology

by Pamela O. Long

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.

Genres: History Of Science

142 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003