Highlights scientific and technological innovations prior to 1500, including paper, windmills, bridges, compasses, clocks, and guns.

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Despite the popular view of medieval Europe as a Dark Age of intellectual stagnation, scientific and technological achievement thrived during this time. As any

This is a ground-breaking volume into the phenomenon of migration in and to England over the medieval millennium. A series of subject specialists synthesise and

In this book, sixteen leading scholars address themselves to providing as full an account of medieval science as current knowledge permits. Designed to be intro