Technology in Mediterranean and European Lands, 600-1600

＂The premise of this book is that technology is embedded in human societies, in human culture, and in the physical environment. It explores how medieval and Renaissance technology shaped Mediterranean and European society across a millennium＂--

Pamela O. Long is a historian who has taught at Barnard College, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University. She is the author and editor of many books, including Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome and Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.