Neighbours and Successors of Rome; Traditions of Glass Production and use in Europe and the Middle East in the Later 1st Millennium AD

Keller, Daniel & Jennifer Price & Caroline Jackson

ISBN 10: 1782973974 / ISBN 13: 9781782973973

Edité par Oxbow Books, 2014

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• Titre: Neighbours and Successors of Rome; Traditions of Glass Production and use in Europe and the Middle East in the Later 1st Millennium AD
• Éditeur: Oxbow Books
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1782973974
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781782973973
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: New

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Presented through 20 case studies covering Europe and the Near East, Neighbours and Successors of Rome investigates development in the production of glass and the mechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a wider material culture in Europe and the Near East around the later first millennium AD. Though highlighting and solidifying chronology, patterns of distribution, and typology, the primary aims of the collection are to present a new methodology that emphasises regional workshops, scientific data, and the wider trade culture.This methodology embraces a shift in conceptual approach to the study of glass by explaining typological change through the existence of a thriving supra-national commercial network that responded to market demands and combines the results of a range of new scientific techniques into a framework that stresses co-dependence and similarities between the various sites considered. Such an approach, particularly within Byzantine and Early Islamic glass production, is a pioneering concept that contextualises individual sites within the wider region.By twinning a critique of archaeometric methods with the latest archaeological research, the contributors present a foundation for glass research, seen through the lens of consumption demands and geographical necessity, that analyses production centres and traditional typological knowledge. In so doing the they bridge an important divide by demonstrating the co-habitability of diverse approaches and disciplines, linking, for example, the production of Campanulate bowls from Gallaecia with the burgeoning international late antique style. Equally, the particular details of those pieces allow us to identify a regional style as well as local production. As such this compilation provides a highly valuable resource for archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians.

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Daniel Keller wrote his doctoral thesis on the glass finds from Petra in Jordan at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Byzantinische Archäologie Mainz in Germany from 2006 to 2009, and has been a librarian in the University of Basel since 2009. He has particular research interests in late antique, Byzantine and early Islamic glass in Jordan and Egypt. Jennifer Price is Emeritus Professor of Roman Provincial Archaeology at Durham University, UK. Her PhD in Archaeology from Cardiff University, UK was on Roman glass in Spain and she has longstanding research interests in Roman and early Medieval glass from archaeological sites in western Europe and the Mediterranean region. Caroline Jackson is Reader in Archaeological Meterials in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in the study and scientific analysis of archaeological materials, specialising in glass and other vitreous materials such as faience, particularly relating to Bronze Age Egypt and the Aegean and on Roman glasses from consumption contexts.