Art and Literature

Although this entire website focuses on the transfer of medieval technology to the colonies, one of the most important ways in which we can understand this history is thourhg artistic represntations as well as literary mentions and allusions. Both artists and writers noticed technology -- they lived with it, they used it, and it made an impression on them.

• The Miller in Chaucer
• Peter Breughel's Wheat Harvest
• Winslow Homer and the American Wheat Harvest
• Haniel Long's poem, "The Grist Mill".
• Colonial American Poetry: Freneau and Longfellow on the Blacksmith