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After studying the question of medieval technology for some time, I cannot conclude that technological advance was seen as a threat in medieval Europe. The advancements of technology of the time were all quite practical, and I cannot think of a single one that could be considered as a comment on cosmology or religion. They included such things as new wind mills, the horse shoe, the European style wheelbarrow, the chimney and fireplace, new kinds of cranes and so on. Very valuable, but hardly the sort of thing a political or religious leader would be alarmed about.
There is an interesting example in this regard, which was a series of actions taken by the Church, called the Condemnations of 1210-1277. The thing that was being condemned was not technology, but quite the reverse. The thing being condemned was a teaching in certain universities to the effect that Aristotle was always right. This teaching had the effect of blocking advancement because anything new was not in Aristotle's writing, and therefore wrong in some way. The effect of the condemnations was to free medieval thinkers from the bonds of scholasticism created by professors in the universities. There are historians who regard the condemnations of 1210-1277 as the action that marked the beginning of modern science.
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