by Jean Gimpel · Wildwood House · tapa dura · ISBN 9780704530980
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«The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages» is the historical essay by Jean Gimpel (Wildwood House, hardback, 294 pages, in English).
Between 900 and 1300, Europe experienced a first industrial revolution, with water power, agricultural innovations, and mining with mechanized iron mills. Gimpel also analyses labour conflicts, pollution, architect-engineers and the mechanical clock, and the subsequent decline due to plague, famine, and mysticism.
This Wildwood House edition (1988) is the second; the original French title is «La Révolution industrielle du Moyen Âge».
Reference work for readers of medieval history, economic history, and studies on technology and innovation before the Industrial Revolution.
