Paradise Restored. The Mechanical Arts from Antiquity through the Thirteenth Century

Whitney, Elspeth

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“…The Romans were equally negative towards practical activities, and they used various pejorative terms to denote them, such as artes illiberales , artes vulgares , artes sordidae and artes banausicae (Van Den Hoven 1996 , pp. 90-91;Ovitt 1983 ;Tatarkiewicz 1963 ;Whitney 1990 ).…”

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Technology as a Practical Art

Hansson

2016

Philosophy of Technology After the Empirical Turn

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The notion of practical arts goes back to antiquity. It covers what we today call technology but also many other types of activities, such as farming, manual crafts, cooking, housekeeping, sport activities, artistic work, and medicine. Interesting discussions on the practical arts can be found in medieval texts on knowledge classifi cation for instance by Hugh of Saint Victor and Robert Kilwardby, and also in Renaissance and Enlightenment literature. In this chapter it is argued that the philosophy of practical arts should be revitalized and that the philosophy of technology should have a major role when this is done. Many of the topics studied in the latter discipline have interesting extensions to practical arts in general. Some examples are the relationship between action knowledge and factual knowledge, the epistemological roles of actions, explanations in practical knowledge, and the role of functional terms and descriptions. The Empirical Turn in the Philosophy of Technology provides an excellent starting-point for widening the philosophy of technology to a general philosophy of the practical arts.

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Technology as a Practical Art

Hansson

2016

Philosophy of Technology After the Empirical Turn

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“…On the question of mechanical arts, see Sternagel 1966;Whitney 1990;Ovitt Jr. 1987: 107-136 these food have nothing to do with hunting and Hugh has to explain that if food science gets its name from one of its part, "it is because, in Antiquity, people live mostly on the products of hunting". But he admitted that food could also belong, by some point of view, to medicine or agriculture: "the preparation of food belongs to bakery, the preparation of meat to cookery and the virtues of seasoning to medicine".…”

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Is cookery an art or a science?

Laurioux¹

2018

Mesas Luso-Brasileiras: Alimentação, Saúde &Amp; Cultura. Vol. II

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“…As Elspeth Whitney wrote in an annotated bibliography, 'this book helped create the new field of medieval technology'. 56 Elsewhere, she describes how White began this process with the bibliography he published in Speculum: 'Much of this information [the work of Lefebvre des Noëttes and Bloch] was collected, commented upon and brought to the attention of American medievalists in 1940 by Lynn White, jr.' 57 Medieval Technology and Social Change in particular was what convinced historians of the importance of his methods, since 'the overall thrust of his work -that technological change was a crucial element in the formation of medieval society -has been virtually universally accepted'. 58 John Langdon, historian of medieval agricultural technology, credits the book, along with work by Jean Gimpel, as establishing the significance of medieval technology, observing that 'Historians since White and Gimpel have largely been trying to explain this phenomenon or to add subtlety to the arguments'.…”

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The Influence of Lynn White, jr.'sMedieval Technology and Social Change

Worthen

2009

History Compass

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Lynn White, jr. published Medieval Technology and Social Change in 1962. A reflection of his lifelong interest in the Middle Ages, combined with his realization of the benefits of studying a civilization through its material culture, White's work helped to create the field of the history of medieval technology. Controversial, inspiring, and accessible, the influence of this book continues to affect the work of a wide variety of scholars. White's contentious ‘stirrup thesis’ suggested that the stirrup's introduction to Europe from Asia in the Carolingian period enabled the development of feudalism, which concept was itself highly problematic. His work on the plow, the horse harness, and three‐field crop rotation, and the degree to which they affected Europe's post‐Roman population shift, is still debated. Mechanical power may not have led to a medieval industrial revolution as White claimed, but wind, water, and chemical power developments, along with the development of the crank, still substantially altered medieval agricultural and industrial production. Medieval Technology and Social Change, for all its flaws, is still a highly readable work of history, in part because of its multi‐disciplinary use of archeology, etymology, economic history, art history, and iconography to frame its central sociocultural and technological arguments, and it is used widely by historians of the Middle Ages, technology, agriculture, and military history alike. This article surveys the historiography of the book, especially its influence on and discussions in recent histories.

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Paradise Restored. The Mechanical Arts from Antiquity through the Thirteenth Century

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