ECON 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Plough, Movable Type, Horse Collar

• School: York University
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON 1000
• Professor: Andrea Podhorsky

Document Summary

Lecture 3: technology in the middle ages: medieval attitudes towards technology. Distinct views of technology developed within medieval intellectual tradition; one that we will examine closely today involves linking technical arts with religious salvation idea that technical arts could lead to religious salvation first proposed by hugh of. St. victor around 1140 ad who saw the mechanical arts as part of man"s religious and philosophical quest . St. victor saw mechanical arts as a branch of knowledge that paralleled theoretical knowledge and practical arts. Theoretical knowledge was a remedy for ignorance; practical knowledge a remedy for vice and the mechanical arts a remedy for physical weakness. Pursuing any of these kinds of knowledge would contribute to man"s rise from his fallen state (i. e. garden of eden, adam and eve, etc ) and would lead to religious salvation. Different ideas about how influential st. victor"s views were.