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Lynn Townsend White Jr.

Born

in The United States

April 29, 1907

Died

March 30, 1987

Genre

History, Religion

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Lynn Townsend White Jr. (April 29, 1907 – March 30, 1987) was an American historian. He was a professor of medieval history at Princeton from 1933 to 1937, and at Stanford from 1937 to 1943. He was president of Mills College, Oakland, from 1943 to 1958 and a professor at University of California, Los Angeles from 1958 until 1987. Lynn White helped to found The Society of History and Technology (SHOT) and was president from 1960 to 1962. He won the Pfizer Award for "Medieval Technology and Social Change" from the History of Science Society (HSS) and the Leonardo da Vinci medal and Dexter prize from SHOT in 1964 and 1970. He was president of the History of Science Society from 1971 to 1972. He was president of The M ...more

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	Medieval Technology and Social Change 3.76 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1962 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Historia económica de Europa (1), La Edad Media by Carlo M. Cipolla, J.C. Rusell, Jacques Le Goff 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1967	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medieval Religion and Technology: Collected Essays (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ucla, No 13) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dynamo and Virgin Reconsidered: Essays in the Dynamism of Western Culture liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1968	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Transformation of the Roman World: Gibbon's Problem After Two Centuries 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fronteras del conocimiento 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1957 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viator: Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies Volume 7 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il monachesimo latino nella Sicilia normanna 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The Man on Horseback, as we have known him during the past millennium, was made possible by the stirrup, which joined man and steed into a fighting organism. Antiquity imagined the Centaur; the early Middle Ages made him the master of Europe.”
― Lynn Townsend White Jr., Medieval Technology and Social Change

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“However, even if the Benedictine missionaries had worked a bit faster in extinguishing horse-burials, and had thus deprived us of the spade’s testimony of the arrival of the stirrup in Germanic lands, we could have discovered by other means that it must have reached the Franks in the early eighth century. At that moment the verbs insilire and desilire, formerly used for getting on and off horses, began to be replaced by scandere equos and descendere,' showing that leaping was replaced by stepping when one mounted or dismounted. But a more explicit indication of the drastic shift from infantry to the new mode of mounted shock combat is the complete change in Frankish weapons which took place at that time.”
― Lynn Townsend White Jr., Medieval Technology and Social Change

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“For the long haul, a draught animal is only as good as its hooves. Oxen seem to have less hoof-breakage than either horses or mules. The feet of horses are particularly sensitive to moisture: it is said that whereas in dry lands like Spain their hooves remain so hard that they can gallop unshod over rocky terrain, in northern Europe the hoof becomes soft, and is quickly worn and easily damaged.”
― Lynn Townsend White Jr., Medieval Technology and Social Change

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