Once More into the Stirrups: Lynn White jr., Medieval Technology and Social Change
Alex Roland
Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change, first published by Oxford University Press in 1962, was brilliantly conceived researched. It informed compelling vision of the Middle Ages as a coherent ultimately rational age. addressed large historical questions continuing significance. brought to bear ten languages almost many categories evidence, from epigraphy archaeology anthropology philology. And it sparkled with clarity, wit, insight. Still, strenuous criticism attracted start, accumulation four decades subsequent scholarship, call into question its viability.
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