Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks After the Roman Empire

by Roberta J. Magnusson

Book Overview

Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson explores the systems' technologies--how they worked, what uses the water served--and also the social rifts that created struggles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080186626X
• ISBN13: 9780801866265
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"