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  • In Praise of Medieval Tinkers*

  • Carl Stephenson
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Economic History / Volume 8 / Issue 1 / May 1948
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 February 2011, pp. 26-42
    Print publication:
    May 1948

  • The subject of technology, it has long been agreed, is of vital interest to the economic historian, as well as to the historian of science. the latter connection my ignorance is such that I can do no more than make a few hesitant observations, largely inspired by a very competent adviser. In the former connection I should presumably speak with greater assurance, because my own research for a good many years has been concerned with medieval society. But with regard the difficult problem of technological advance and its significance, must confess that I can ask many more questions than I can answer—as will be seen from what follows. Such questions must be faced by anyone who considers history more than an antiquarian hobby. For what phase of historical investigation can be more important than the development of the industrial society in which we live ? Precisely where is taking mankind nobody knows. We historians—medievalists and others—must at least remark its novelty and try better to understand it by explaining its origins.

  • Notes on the Composition and Interpretation of Domesday Book

  • Carl Stephenson
  • Journal:
    / Volume 22 / Issue 1 / January 1947
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 February 2013, pp. 1-15
    Print publication:
    January 1947

  • Among the statistical records of the Middle Ages Domesday Book is outstanding. Its very name testifies to the fact that, concerning the tenure of land and appurtenant rights, it was long recognized as authoritative — as providing what amounted to final judgments. Even after Domesday Book had lost its original value for the decision of cases in the courts of law, it remained very famous. Like Magna Carta and Westminster Abbey, it was a great national monument, acclaimed in exuberant language by generation after generation of scholars. Within the last half-century or so, to be sure, all such opinions have come to be reconsidered by historians trained in more exacting schools. Yet we of today, while preferring sound appraisal to mere eulogy, continue to regard Domesday Book as a marvelous record — in many respects the finest of the mediaeval period.