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Frontcover 1 Contents 6 List of figures 8 Acknowledgements 10 Preface 12 Abbreviations 15 1 Military Engineers in the Middle Ages 16 2 Late Antiquity and the Early “Middle Ages”: Were the “Dark Ages” Really Dark? 35 3 Anonymous but Effective: The Engineers and Technicians of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries 91 4 The Engineer Recognised 122 5 Engineers in Demand: Innovation and Development in the Thirteenth Century 166 6 Old and New Technology and its Operators in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries 217 7 Polymaths and Specialists in the Fifteenth Century 249 Postscript: from Medieval to (Early) Modern in the Sixteenth Century 289 Appendix: Military Engineers and Miners in the Pipe Rolls of the English Exchequer 295 Glossary 300 Bibliography of Primary Sources 304 Bibliography of Secondary Sources 319 Index 352

Author

Peter Purton;

Language

EN