Prologue

Prologue
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1984
Genre: Archives
ISBN:

Aging and Society

Aging and Society
Author: Matilda White Riley
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages: 671
Release: 1972-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1610446836

Represents the first integrated effort to deal with age as a crucial variable in the social system. Of special interest to sociologists for whom the sociology of age seems destined to become a special field.

Fifty Years of Medieval Technology and Social Change

Fifty Years of Medieval Technology and Social Change
Author: Steven A. Walton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317135393

This volume brings together a series of papers at Kalamazoo as well as some contributed papers inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Lynn White Jr.’s, Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962), a slim study which catalyzed the study of technology in the Middle Ages in the English-speaking world. While the initial reviews and decades-long fortune of the volume have been varied, it is still in print and remains a touchstone of an idea and a time. The contributors to the volume, therefore, both investigate the book itself and its fate, and look at new research furthering and inspired by White’s work. The book opens with an introduction surveying White’s career, with a bibliography of his work, as well as some opening thoughts on the study of medieval technology in the last fifty years. Three papers then deal explicitly with the reception and longevity of his work and its impact on medieval studies more generally. Then five papers look at new cast studies areas where White’s work and approach has had a particular impact, namely, medieval technology studies and medieval rural/ ecological studies.