Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England
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Augustinian Houses
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Battle Abbey
Benedictine Houses
Bradenstoke Priory
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century
Christian Malford
church control of milling operations
Cistercian Houses
early
Early Fourteenth Century
Ecclesiastical Lords
Edward III
Episcopal Houses
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feudal land tenure
fourteenth
fulling
Fulling Mill
Henry III
Hereditary Tenure
holdings
Horse Mills
houses
Industrial Mills
Lay Lords
medieval economic history
Medieval Milling
Mill Holdings
Mill Rents
Mill Revenues
mills
monastic estate management
religious
Religious Houses
religious institutions England
rents
revenues
Seigneurial Mills
Seigneurial Monopolies
technological innovation medieval
watermill technology
William Son
Product details
- ISBN 9780367600334
- Weight: 810g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the first detailed study of the role of the Church in the commercialization of milling in medieval England. Focusing on the period from the late eleventh to the mid sixteenth centuries, it examines the estate management practices of more than thirty English religious houses founded by the Benedictines, Cistercians, Augustinians and other minor orders, with an emphasis on the role played by mills and milling in the establishment and development of a range of different sized episcopal and conventual foundations. Contrary to the views espoused by a number of prominent historians of technology since the 1930s, the book demonstrates that patterns of mill acquisition, innovation and exploitation were shaped not only by the size, wealth and distribution of a house’s estates, but also by environmental and demographic factors, changing cultural attitudes and legal conventions, prevailing and emergent technical traditions, the personal relations of a house with its patrons, tenants, servants and neighbours, and the entrepreneurial and administrative flair of bishops, abbots, priors and other ecclesiastical officials.
Adam Lucas is a senior lecturer in the Science and Technology Studies Program at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His first book, Wind, Water, Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology, was published in 2006.
