Glass of the Roman world
"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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford u.a.
Oxbow Books
2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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"--Provided by publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben Bibliogr. Jenny Price S. [XII] - XXVI "In 2006 a two-day conference in honour of Professor Jennifer Price was organised by the Association for the History of Glass (AHG) to mark her retirement from a personal chair in the Archaeology Department at Durham University. [...] The authors of the 18 papers in this volume mirror many facets of Jennifer Price's research and scholarship." - Preface, S. [X] |
| Beschreibung: | XXVI, 204 S. zahlr. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 1782977740 1-78297-774-0 9781782977742 978-1-78297-774-2 |