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Neighbours and successors of Rome : traditions of glass production and use in Europe and the Middle East in the later 1st millennium AD / edited by Daniel Keller, Jennifer Price and Caroline Jackson.

Contributor(s): Keller, Daniel, 1970- [editor.] | Price, J. (Jennifer), Dr [editor.] | Jackson, Caroline M [editor.]
Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.Description: 231 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 29 cm.ISBN: 9781782973973Subject(s): Glassware industry -- Rome -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Glassware industry -- Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Glassware industry -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Glass manufacture -- Rome -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Glass manufacture -- Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Glass manufacture -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Glassware, Roman -- Congresses | Glassware, Byzantine -- Congresses | Glassware -- Europe -- Congresses | Glassware, Medieval -- CongressesAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Neighbours and successors of Rome
Contents:
Glass from the later first millennium AD : current state of research / Daniel Keller, Jennifer Price and Caroline Jackson -- The last Roman glass in Britain : recycling at the periphery of the empire / Caroline Jackson and Harriet Foster -- Opaque yellow glass production in the early medieval period : new evidence / James R. N. Peake and Ian C. Freestone -- The vessel glass assemblage from Anglo-Saxon occupation at West Heslerton, North Yorkshire / Rose Broadley -- Glassworking at Whitby Abbey and Kirkdale Minster in North Yorkshire / Sarah Paynter, Sarah Jennings and Jennifer Price -- Glass workshops in northern Gaul and the Rhineland in the first millennium AD as hints of a changing land use, including some results of the chemical analyses of glass from Mayen / Martin Grünewald and Sonngard Hartmann -- Campanulate bowls from Gallaecia : evidence for regional glass production in late antiquity / Mário da Cruz -- The Wilshere Collection of late Roman gold-glass at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford / Susan Walker -- The "proto-history" of Venetian glassmaking / David Whitehouse -- Late Roman glass from South Pannonia and the problem of its origin / Mia Leljak -- Glass supply and consumption in the late Roman and early Byzantine site Dichin, northern Bulgaria / Thilo Rehren and Anastasia Cholakova -- An early Christian glass workshop at 45, Vasileos Irakleiou Street in the centre of Thessaloniki / Anastassios Ch. Antonaras IV -- Glass tesserae from Hagios Polyeuktos, Constantinople : their early Byzantine affiliations / Nadine Schibille and Judith McKenzie -- Successors of Rome? : Byzantine glass mosaics / Liz James -- Glass from the Byzantine palace at Ephesus in Turkey / Sylvia Fünfschilling -- Late Roman and early Byzantine glass from Heliopolis/Baalbek / Hanna Hamel and Susanne Greiff -- Changes in glass supply in southern Jordan in the later first millennium AD / Susanne Greiff and Daniel Keller -- Egyptian glass abroad : HIMT glass and its markets / Marie-Dominique Nenna -- Continuity and change in Byzantine and early Islamic glass from Syene/Aswan and Elephantine, Egypt / Daniel Keller -- Sasanian glass : an overview / St John Simpson.
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Papers presented at a conference organized by the Association for the History of Glass, held at King's Manor, York, 19-20 May 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.

Glass from the later first millennium AD : current state of research / Daniel Keller, Jennifer Price and Caroline Jackson -- The last Roman glass in Britain : recycling at the periphery of the empire / Caroline Jackson and Harriet Foster -- Opaque yellow glass production in the early medieval period : new evidence / James R. N. Peake and Ian C. Freestone -- The vessel glass assemblage from Anglo-Saxon occupation at West Heslerton, North Yorkshire / Rose Broadley -- Glassworking at Whitby Abbey and Kirkdale Minster in North Yorkshire / Sarah Paynter, Sarah Jennings and Jennifer Price -- Glass workshops in northern Gaul and the Rhineland in the first millennium AD as hints of a changing land use, including some results of the chemical analyses of glass from Mayen / Martin Grünewald and Sonngard Hartmann -- Campanulate bowls from Gallaecia : evidence for regional glass production in late antiquity / Mário da Cruz -- The Wilshere Collection of late Roman gold-glass at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford / Susan Walker -- The "proto-history" of Venetian glassmaking / David Whitehouse -- Late Roman glass from South Pannonia and the problem of its origin / Mia Leljak -- Glass supply and consumption in the late Roman and early Byzantine site Dichin, northern Bulgaria / Thilo Rehren and Anastasia Cholakova -- An early Christian glass workshop at 45, Vasileos Irakleiou Street in the centre of Thessaloniki / Anastassios Ch. Antonaras IV -- Glass tesserae from Hagios Polyeuktos, Constantinople : their early Byzantine affiliations / Nadine Schibille and Judith McKenzie -- Successors of Rome? : Byzantine glass mosaics / Liz James -- Glass from the Byzantine palace at Ephesus in Turkey / Sylvia Fünfschilling -- Late Roman and early Byzantine glass from Heliopolis/Baalbek / Hanna Hamel and Susanne Greiff -- Changes in glass supply in southern Jordan in the later first millennium AD / Susanne Greiff and Daniel Keller -- Egyptian glass abroad : HIMT glass and its markets / Marie-Dominique Nenna -- Continuity and change in Byzantine and early Islamic glass from Syene/Aswan and Elephantine, Egypt / Daniel Keller -- Sasanian glass : an overview / St John Simpson.