Download or read book Medieval French Bridges written by Marjorie Nice Boyer and published by Medieval Academy of America. This book was released on 1976 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Bridges of Mediaeval Paris written by Virginia Wylie Egbert and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 14th-century illuminated manuscript, The Life of St. Denis, in the Bibliothèque Nationale, contains thirty remarkable illustrations of contemporary life as it flourished on the Seine and on the Paris bridges. Virginia Wylie Egbert is the first to focus attention on the bridge scenes in the lower third of the illuminations and to relate them in a systematic way to the social life of the period. In an effort to determine how realistic the bridge scenes are in their portrayal of everyday life, the author has gone to mediaeval writings and documents. Her telling quotations range from peddler's street cries to a description of attempts to reduce pollution in the streets of Paris. In her introduction, Mrs. Egbert gives an account of the manuscript and discusses its style and relationship to a small group of other manuscripts.
Download or read book The Bridges of Medieval England written by David Featherstone Harrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval bridges are startling achievements of civil engineering, which prove the importance of road transport and the sophistication of the medieval economy. The Bridges of Medieval England rewrites their history, offering new insights into many aspects of the subject. It has profound implications for our understanding of pre-industrial economy and society, challenging accepted accounts of the development of medieval trade and communications and showing continuities from the Anglo-Saxon period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Download or read book Old Bridges of France written by William Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bridge Architecture written by Wilbur Jay Watson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book of Bridges written by Frank Brangwyn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sm. thick 4to. Original illustrated cloth. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. With coloured frontpiece, 35 full-page coloured plates, and numerous text drawings. Title page printed in re/black ink.
Download or read book Bridges Law and Power in Medieval England 700 1400 written by Alan Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the financing, maintenance and construction of medieval bridges uncovers much about law and power at the time.
Download or read book Medieval Bridges written by Martin Cook and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Roman, Saxon and Norman origins of the medieval bridge, including its broader national and international context, and considers the engineering techniques and social background that led to its development during the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. A final chapter considers the survival of medieval bridges into the twentieth century.
Download or read book Handbook of Medieval Culture Volume 3 written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.
Download or read book A Book of Bridges written by Walter Shaw Sparrow and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographies of Mobilities written by Tim Cresswell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is divided into three sections.
Download or read book Bridges and Men written by Joseph Gies and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since human time first began, men have needed to cross streams and valleys, span chasms and torrents—and have found ways of getting to the other side. In this sweeping historic survey, Joseph Gies, author of Adventure Underground: The Story of the World’s Great Tunnels, recounts for our pleasure the history of bridges through the ages. From the first vines thrown across small streams to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge across the entrance to New York Harbor and to plans for possible bridges across the English Channel and the Straits of Messina, Mr. Gies interests us in the men who dreamed bridges and built them; in the terrible catastrophes of bridges that collapsed—including that across the First of Tay and “Galloping Gertie” across the Tacoma Narrows; in painters and poets and novelists who have found their inspiration in or on bridges. In large part, that is, BRIDGES AND MEN is about practical visionaries who combined the genius of engineers and architects, the talents of propagandists and business men: The Bridge Brothers, who built the world-faced Pont d’Avignon; Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, who built the Pont de la Concorde; john Rennie, the Scottish farmer boy who built New London Bridge; George and Robert Stephenson, who invented the railroad and railroad bridge; and Thomas Telford, who bridged the ocean at Menai Strait.
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Astley Bridge Branch Lending Library written by Bolton (England). Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Modern Europe written by James B. Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history. Provides a thought-provoking overview of current thinking on this period. Key themes include evolving early-modern identities; changes in religion and cultural life; the revolution of the mind; roles of women in early-modern societies; the rise of the modern state; and Europe and the new world system Incorporates new scholarship on Eastern and Central Europe. Includes an article translated into English for the first time.
Download or read book Medieval Military Technology written by Kelly Robert DeVries and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough update of a classic book includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of horses, handguns, incendiary weapons, and siege engines, and new illustrations.
Download or read book Movable Bridges written by Otis Ellis Hovey and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
