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Glass of the Roman World illustrates the arrival of new cultural
systems, mechanisms of trade and an expanded economic base in the
early 1st millennium AD which, in combination, allowed the further
development of the existing glass industry. Glass became something
which encompassed more than simply a novel and highly decorative
material. Glass production grew and its consumption increased until
it was assimilated into all levels of society, used for display and
luxury items but equally for utilitarian containers, windows and
even tools. These 18 papers by renowned international scholars
include studies of glass from Europe and the Near East. The authors
write on a variety of topics where their work is at the forefront
of new approaches to the subject. They both extend and consolidate
aspects of our understanding of how glass was produced, traded and
used throughout the Empire and the wider world drawing on
chronology, typology, patterns of distribution, and other
methodologies, including the incorporation of new scientific
methods. Though focusing on a single material the papers are firmly
based in its archaeological context in the wider economy of the
Roman world, and consider glass as part of a complex material
culture controlled by the expansion and contraction of the Empire.
The volume is presented in honour of Jenny Price, a foremost
scholar of Roman glass.
The explosion of research in the field of ancient and historic
glasses has opened up glass studies in recent years. However, our
deeper understanding of the technology and provenance of Bronze Age
Egyptian and Roman glasses in the Mediterranean has not been
mirrored by our studies of glasses and other vitreous materials
found in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. There are few studies which
collate the material culture of the region and still fewer which
explore the patterning of vitreous materials in the landscape. Our
knowledge of where the material originated and who used it is still
incomplete. Therefore, in 2005 a group of scholars in the fields of
glass studies and Aegean prehistory came together as part of the
Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology's Round Table discussions
to bring the subject up to date. The central themes to this
discussion were based upon provenance, occurrence and the role of
vitreous materials in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean. Nine
papers are presented from the discussions by experts in Bronze Age
glass and faience and Aegean specialists, who examine a fascinating
and diverse selection of topics surrounding the production,
movement, use and role of vitreous materials in the Late Bronze Age
Aegean. The contributions from John Bennet, Karen Foster, Paul
Nicholson, George Nightingale, Marina Panagiotaki, Mark Peters,
Thilo Rehren, Sue Sherratt and Mike Tite bring together our current
understanding of these materials and their role in the societies
who used them.
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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