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LECTURE:
MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY & ECONOMICS

Agricultural revolution

• heavy plow: moulboard plough
• three-field rotation (including horse collar and plough)

Rise of towns

• Theories
• Merchant guilds and crafts guilds definition
• • Royal grant to tanners' guild
  • Apprenticeship agreements for weavers
  
  

Wool: industry of the Middle Ages

• sheep
• carding or combing
• spinning
• weaving
  • ancient warp-weighted loom
  • sample 10th century linen
• dyeing
  • The Woad Page
• fulling and the medieval mill
  • grain mill with gears
• finishing

Medieval technology: brief timeline

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