integral to the development of Western technology. From his Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages of 1940, through his Dynamo and Virgin Reconsidered of 1958, to his Medieval Technology and Social Change (Oxford University Press, 1962), his work refuted the assumption that the Middle Ages were too preoccupied with theology and/or chivalry to concern themselves with technology, the assumption behind Henry Adams' antitheses of Virgin vs. dynamo, but widespread elsewhere as well. White's view of writing history His work tied together that of many predecessors, above all that of Marc Bloch, to whose memory Medieval Technology and Social Change is dedicated. White argued, "Since, until recent centuries, technology was chiefly the concern of groups which wrote little, the role which technological development plays in human affairs has been neglected," and declared, "If historians are to attempt to write the history of mankind, and not simply the history of mankind as it was viewed by the small and specialized segments of our race which have had the habit of scribbling, they must take a fresh view of the records, ask new questions of them, and use all the resources of archaeology, iconography, and etymology to find answers when no answers can be discovered in contemporary writings." See also Deep ecology Religion and environmentalism References Bibliography Further reading Lynn Townsend White Jr., Medieval Religion and Technology (University of California Press, 1978). Collection of nineteen of his papers published elsewhere between 1940 and 1975. Lynn White Jr., "The Changing Past", Harper’s Magazine, (November 1954), 29–34. Elspeth Whitney, "Lynn White Jr.’s 'The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis' After 50 Years", History Compass, 2015, Vol.13(8), 396–410. Shana Worthen, "The Influence of Lynn White Jr.'s Medieval Technology and Social Change", History Compass, 2009, Vol.7(4),1201–1217. 1907 births 1987 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers American medievalists American historians of science Historians of technology Leonardo da Vinci Medal recipients Presidents of the American Historical Association Presidents of Mills College Princeton University faculty Stanford University faculty Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America 20th-century American male writers Union Theological Seminary (New York City) alumni Members of the American Philosophical Society 20th-century American academics