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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.
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