Langdon, John
Dr. John Langdon
(Professor Emeritus)
Ph.D., University of Birmingham (1983)
M.A., B.E.Sc., University of Western Ontario (1967)
2-66 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-5420
Expertise & Research Interests
- British Medieval, British History of Technology, Medieval Agricultural History, Medieval European Economic History
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Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300 - 1540 (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 2004) 361 pp. +xviii
Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: the Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066 to 1500 (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, 1986), 331 pp. + xvi. Books edited: [co-edited with Grenville Astill], Medieval Farming and Technology: the Impact of Agricultural Change in Northwest England (Brill, Leiden, 1997), 321 pp. + xi Refereed Articles: ![]() [with James Masschaele] "Commercial Activity and Population Growth in Medieval England", Past and Present, no. 190 (Feb., 2006), pp. 35-81.
[with Martin Watts] "Tower Windmills in Medieval England: A Case of Arrested Development?", Technology and Culture, vol. 46 (2005), pp. 697-718.
[with Martin Watts] "An Early Tower Windmill? The Turweston 'Post mill' Reconsidered", History of Technology, vol. 25 (2004), pp. 1-6.
“Inland Water Transport in Medieval “The Mobilization of Labour in the Milling Industry of Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century "Lordship and Peasant Consumerism in the Milling Industry of Early Fourteenth-century "Inland Water Transport in Medieval England", Journal of Historical Geography, xix (1993), pp. 1-11. "Water-mills and Windmills in the
"A Quiet Revolution - The Horse in Agriculture, History Today, xxxix (July, 1989), pp. 32-37.
"Ox-shoeing on English Demesnes, 1200-1500, Tools and Tillage, v, no. 3 (1986), pp. 173-179. "Horse Hauling: A Revolution in Vehicle Transport in Twelfth-and Thirteenth-Century "The Economics of Horses and Oxen in Medieval England," Agricultural History Review, xxx (1982), pp. 31-40. Chapters:
[with Jill Walker and John R. Falconer] "Boom and Bust: Building Investment on the Bishop of Winchester's Estate in the Early Fourteenth Century" in The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society, ed. R.H. Britnell (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2003), pp. 139-155.
"The Use of Animal Power from 1200 to 1800", in Economia e Energia, ed. Simonetta Cavaciocchi (Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini", Atti della Settimana di Studi, 34, Prato, 2003), pp. 213-221. “Transportation, Inland (European)”, in Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.B. Friedman and K.M. Figg ( “Seebohm, Frederic (1833-1912)”, “Vinogradoff, Sir Paul Gravilovitch (1854-1925)”, “Postan, Sir Michael Moissey (1899-1981)”, in A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed. D.R. Woolf (Garland, New York, 1998), vol. 2, pp. 732, 823, 926. “Was [with Grenville Astill and Janken Myrdal], “Introduction”, in Medieval Farming and Technology (see above), pp. 1-9. "Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Forestry", in An Anthology of Medieval Latin, ed. Frank A.C. Mantello and George Rigg (Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1996), pp. 459-64. “Modes of Transportation in Preindustrial Societies”, Proceedings of the Eighteenth Congress of Historical Sciences ( "Double-shafted Vehicles and Other Elements in the "Revolution" of Land Transport in Medieval Europe", in La Revolution du Brancard dans le Transport Attelé entre Seine et Rhin, de l'Antiquité au Moyen Age. Aspects Archéologiques, Économiques et Techniques. Actes du Colloque de Bruxelles et Treignes, 1 et 2 Octobre 1993, sous la direction de Catherine Rommelaire [Publication du Centre d'Histoire et de Technologie Rural. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Treignes, 1995], pp. 119-32. "Agricultural Equipment," in The Countryside of Medieval England, ed. G. Astill and A. Grant, (Basil Blackwell Ltd.; Oxford, 1988) pp. 86-107.
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