Gegna: Coastal Mooring in Crusader Valencia

King Jaume the Conqueror promoted post-crusade technology in reorganizing his conquest of the thirteenth-century kingdom of Valencia along the Mediterranean coast. The massive use of paper inaugurated by his archives—Europe's "Paper Revolution"—recorded among his franchises a maritime...

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Published in:Technology and culture 2006-10, Vol.47 (4), p.777-786
Main Author: Burns, Robert I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anchors
Archives & records
Beaches
Charters
Christians
Cultural history
Cultural studies
Earth sciences
Freight
Geophysics. Oceanography. Navigation
Gin
Hawsers
History of science and technology
Industry
Kingdoms
Kings
Land
Linguistics
Moorings
Muslims
Navigation
Research Note
Science and technology
Ships
Social change
Spain
Technological change
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Summary:King Jaume the Conqueror promoted post-crusade technology in reorganizing his conquest of the thirteenth-century kingdom of Valencia along the Mediterranean coast. The massive use of paper inaugurated by his archives—Europe's "Paper Revolution"—recorded among his franchises a maritime docking machine called a gegnum, deployed along the Valencian beaches. The term does not yield its mysteries to exhaustive linguistic parsing or to reconstruction of its actual operations, once so common. What does gegnum mean in any language? What can be gleaned from archival descriptions? Can previous Muslim usage offer bicultural enlightenment? Colleagues, especially Professor Paul E. Chevedden, contribute to the debate and propose theories.
ISSN:0040-165X
1097-3729
1097-3729
DOI:10.1353/tech.2006.0216