Quote Originally Posted by wumpus View Post
PS: the information for that last paragraph came from a book "The Medieval Industrial Revolution". Unfortunately, I lost that book (not a common practice, I assure you). I remember reading other works about how milling grain was "women's work" (apparently hated by anyone stuck doing it) and realized just how many resources were spent automating "women's work" that it seemed to break a lot of assumptions I had. But I just couldn't find the book to check.
Can't find a book by that title, do you mean "The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages" by Jean Gimpel? I think it a great book, but the copy I read is my brother's.