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18. Ibid.
19. Nordal Akerman, ed., The Necessity of Friction (Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag 1993) p. 12.
20. Alan Cowell, «Socialists Are Sinking in Germany,» New York Times, September 24 1995, p. 4.
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22. Richard Tomkins, «Enter the Bespoken Newspaper,» Financial Times, March 13 1995, p. 11.
23. Fernand Braudel, The Identity of France, Vol. II, People and Production (New York: Fontana Press, 1991), p. 102.
24. Frances Gies and Joseph Gies, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Innovation in the Middle Ages (New York: HarperCoIlins), 1994, pp. 1, 3.
25. Braudel, The Identity of France, p. 102.
26. Georges Duby, ed., A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press/Belknap Press, 1988), p. 123.
27. Gies and Gies, Forge and Waterwheel, pp. 37, 43.
28. Fernand Braudel, The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible, Vol. 1 (New York: Harper and Row, 1981), p. 123.
29. William Manchester, A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance (Boston: Little, Brown, 1992), p. 47.
30. Ibid., p. 5.
31. Ibid., p. 69.
32. Braudel, The Identity of France, p. 102.
33. Manchester, A World Lit Only by Fire, p. 96.
34. Ibid., p. 51.
35. Ibid.; Georges Duby, Dominique B. Arthelemy, and Charles De LaRonciere, «Portraits,» in Georges Duby, ed., A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press/Belknap Press, 1988), p. 170.
36. Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of PhilUp 11 (New York: Harper and Row, 1973), p. 745.
37. Duby, ed., A History of Private Life, p. 23.
38. Ibid., p. 397.
39. Duby, Arthelemy, and De LaRonciere, «Portraits,» pp. 116, 165; Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages (New York: HarperCoIlins, 1993), p. 197.
