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Opening a new window onto medieval glass trade and technology

Descrizione del progetto

La produzione e il commercio del vetro dal VII al X secolo d.C.

Combinando l’analisi chimica con approcci archeologici e storiografici, il progetto WINDOWGLASSMED, finanziato dall’UE, studierà campioni di vetro rigorosamente datati provenienti da Danimarca, Irlanda, Italia, Norvegia, Spagna e Svezia. Il progetto indagherà la produzione, il commercio e il riciclaggio del vetro dal VII al X secolo d.C. Produrrà la prima mappatura dettagliata delle mutevoli tecnologie di produzione del vetro in questo periodo e delle rotte commerciali seguite dai diversi metodi di produzione. Esaminerà inoltre i fattori sociali ed economici che influenzavano pratiche come il riciclaggio. L’obiettivo sarà quello di acquisire una nuova visione di questo periodo cruciale della storia della produzione del vetro e dell’evoluzione tecnologica.

Obiettivo

This project will open a new window onto trade and contact in Early Medieval western Europe, applying multidisciplinary research methods to well-dated samples of glass to investigate its production, trade, and recycling from the 7th to the 10th centuries AD. Historical research at one of the leading centres for the study of the Early Medieval period will be paired with cutting-edge scientific analysis, allowing the first detailed mapping of the changing production technologies of glass in this period, the trade routes followed by different glass ‘recipes’, and the social and economic factors influencing practices such as recycling. While the chemical and isotopic analysis of glass is already used as a proxy for questions of trade and contact, the data currently available for this period are sporadic, with many samples coming from poorly-dated archaeological contexts. This is a vital period in the history of glass production, witnessing a major compositional transition from the use of natron to plant ashes in its manufacture, but the timing of this technological change – and its relationship with Early Medieval recycling practice – cannot be understood without better temporal resolution than is currently available. This project seeks to resolve these concerns by focusing upon closely-dated samples of glass from several western European countries (Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, and Spain), and by combining chemical analysis with archaeological and historiographical approaches. In tandem with the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilisations (DARMC), Harvard University, this project will be hosted by the glass research group at Newcastle University (led by Duckworth), which has a particular focus on analytical chemistry and the investigation of recycling, and its results will feed into broader understanding of the development of the European economy after the Roman period.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP. Cfr.: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

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Coordinatore

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 271 732,80
Indirizzo
KINGS GATE
NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
Regno Unito

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Regione
North East (England) Northumberland and Tyne and Wear Tyneside
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 271 732,80

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