'Medieval England's water related technologies' in P Squatriti (ed), Working with Water in Medieval Europe. Technology and resource use

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Provides a wide ranging account of the economic use of water in England, and the associated technology applied in using it, as a source of power for mills, for inland navigation, for water supply, etc. Contributed to a volume of collected essays exploring the experiences of seven European countries - England, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Spain. The c20 sections include: 'Water management in agriculture'; 'Water transport'; 'Harnessing water power for milling'; 'The manorial corn mill'; 'Mill structures and mechanisms'; 'Mill dams and leats'; 'Multiple mills'; 'Tide mills'; 'Industrial mills'; 'Growth in use of water power'; 'Decline in use of water power'; 'Defensive moats in castles'; 'defensive moats in towns'; 'Fisheries and fishponds'; 'Monasteries and hydrotechnology'; 'Monastic river diversions and canals'; 'Water supplies to monasteries'; 'Monastic mills'; 'Water supplies to cities'; 'Sewage and wastewater disposal in towns'