La mine au Moyen Age. La gestion de l'espace souterrain

摘要

Mining in the Middle Ages. Administering underground space. Renaissance treatises show that mining techniques had achievd a certain level of perfection. What happened down the long span of the Middle Ages ? What developments took place in the various forms of know-how, in the knowledge and expertise of contractors and miners ? What influences brought about those developments ? Were they the same everywhere ? From accurately dated and thoroughly investigated sites, one can trace up, in one instance, the first tentative emergence of a rationalized organisation of underground space and, in another instance, the implementation of the principles in the administration of space as it is known in large modern