The Middle Ages, writes French scholar Jean Gimpel, saw an extraordinary flourishing of technological development throughout Europe. With the era came waterwheels and clock towers, nearly uniform machine parts and improvements in public hygiene, vaulting cathedrals and towering city walls, and a notion of spiritual and earthly progress that promised better things to bltadwin.rus: Jean Gimpel’s The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages is an excellent corrective to misconceptions about medieval stagnation. For example: For example: from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries more stone was quarried in France than had been mined in the whole history of Ancient Egypt (where the Great Pyramid. The medieval ages were far more like our modern age than we often think. The only thing that came to my mind prior to reading this book was knights and castles. Hardly a dark age as often portrayed, the period was full of industrial innovation, and Jean Gimpel makes an interesting survey of some of the inventions that came out of the period /5(8).
Jean Gimpel was a man of great physical and intellectual energy, with a big heart and strong sense of justice. () and The Medieval Machine: the Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages. Octo. Died. J. Genre. History, Science. edit data. Jean Gimpel was a man of great physical and intellectual energy, with a big heart and strong sense of justice. A profound and very practical interest in technology, and especially that of the Middle Ages, was the thread that ran through his working life. The medieval machine: the industrial revolution of the Middle Ages Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Share to Tumblr. Share to Pinterest. Share via email.
Gimpel's The Medieval Machine is an unusual mixture of the two, being an extremely readable work aimed at a popular audience. It presents a potpourri of information about the technological successes and achievements of the Middle Ages, and should do much to correct the still stereotypical view of the Middle Ages as backward, superstition- ridden and technologically primitive. Reprint of the ed. published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York Includes bibliographical references and index The energy resources of Europe and their development -- The agricultural revolution -- Mining the mineral wealth of Europe -- Environment and pollution -- Labor conditions in three medieval industries -- Villard de Honnecourt: architect and engineer -- The mechanical clock. Jean Gimpel, The medieval machine. The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages, London, Gollancz, , 8vo, pp. xi, , illus., £ Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 August
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