Cistercian Expansion and Industrial Water Mill Infrastructure in Twelfth-Century France: An Unrecognized Dependency

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dc.contributor.advisorVaughn, Sally N.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMelosi, Martin V.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLaos, Nora
dc.creatorPeters, Christie
dc.creator.orcid0000-0003-3874-8041
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-21T17:23:02Z
dc.date.available2016-07-21T17:23:02Z
dc.date.createdMay 2016
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.date.updated2016-07-21T17:23:03Z
dc.description.abstractCistercians have long been linked with the development and use of industrial water mill technology, but current scholarship downplays this interrelationship. The argument presented here is that the success of the Cistercian Order in twelfth-century France and Europe depended upon the incorporation and use of industrial water mill infrastructure and technology that existed in France prior to the Order’s foundation in 1098. Evidence for the presence of pre-existing hydraulic resources in France, the development of a Cistercian technological system centered on the incorporation and use of these resources, as well as an explanation of St. Bernard’s role in perpetuating an architectural and technological model throughout the Order based upon his own monastery of Clairvaux that incorporated hydraulic infrastructure into its design will be presented here. Taken together, this evidence demonstrates the dependency of the Order on these pre-existing resources.
dc.description.departmentHistory, Department of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10657/1379
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectCistercian
dc.subjectMedieval
dc.subjectTechnology
dc.subjectFrance
dc.subjectWater-mill
dc.subjectPower
dc.titleCistercian Expansion and Industrial Water Mill Infrastructure in Twelfth-Century France: An Unrecognized Dependency
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentHistory, Department of
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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