The carruca or caruca was a kind of heavy plow important to medieval agriculture in Northern Europe. The carruca used a heavy iron plowshare to turn heavy soil and may have required a …

A plough or plow (both pronounced / p l aʊ /) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. [1] Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern …

2013年1月28日 · In 1962 Lynn White, Jr. argued – against all the Marxists – that the primary explanation for the economic and demographic boom around AD 1000 was the introduction of …

2013年1月22日 · Armed with massive amounts of data, researchers are now trying to document how a small technology leap turned the distribution of wealth on its head in medieval Northern …

2016年1月1日 · In the present paper, we estimate the causal effect of a large shock to agricultural productivity—namely the introduction of the heavy plow in the Middle Ages—on long-run …

2013年6月18日 · More specifically, heavy ploughs have three function parts that set them apart from primitive ards. The first part is an asymmetric ploughshare, which cuts the soil …

The heavy plow is an advanced agricultural tool developed in medieval Europe that allowed for more efficient tilling of heavy, clay-rich soils. This innovation transformed agricultural practices, …

Unlike the earlier scratch plow, which was lightweight and easier to handle but inefficient for deeper plowing, the heavy plow facilitated greater crop yields by improving soil drainage and …

The origins of the medieval heavy plow and the evolution of its technical details define how it impacted agricultural productivity and techniques as well as population and urban growth in …

This research explores the thesis of twentieth-century medieval technological historian Lynn White Jr., introduced in his 1962 monograph Medieval Technology and Social Change, which argues …