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In the Middle Ages, the miller was the man everyone needed and nobody trusted. Follow Wil, the miller of Little Oaking, through a single day in the 1300s — from the first groan of the waterwheel at dawn to the last sack of flour at dusk.
Discover the soke mill monopoly: why every villager was FORCED by law to grind at the lord's mill, why hand mills were smashed by the reeve, and how the miller's toll — the multure — made him rich and hated in equal measure. See the miracle of medieval engineering: the great waterwheel, hand-cut oak gears, and French burr millstones that turned river water into bread. Learn the miller's deadliest secret: why the stones must never run empty, and how flour dust could blow a mill sky-high.
From Chaucer's cheating miller to the windmills rising on the hills, this is the story of the craftsman who stood between the river and the bread — and fed the Middle Ages.
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