Anders
You should get hold of
J Price (ed) 2000 Glass in Britain and Ireland AD 350-1100, London: British Museum (Occasional Paper 127) - unfortunately now out of print. In it are two of my papers:
Bayley, J Glassworking in early medieval England, 137-42 and
Bayley, J Saxon glassworking at Glastonbury Abbey, 161-188 and 204.
The first paper assembles all the evidence then available for sites in England, and the second presents a more detailed assessment of the finds from Glastonbury Abbey, a major early medieval English glassworking site.
You should look through the Annales published by l'Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre (AIHV) which has papers on much work on glass and glassmaking. L'Association Francaise pour l'Archeologie du Verre (AFAV) has published a number of conference proceedings, some of which deal in part or in whole with the early medieval period. For example: D Foy and G Sennequier (eds) 1991. Ateliers de verriers de l'antiquité à la période pré-industrielle. Rouen: AFAV. AFAV also publishes an annual newsletter. There are various publications of the San Vincenzo al Volturno site in Italy - a monastery where all sorts of crafts including glassworking were carried out. I think there is at least one volume about it in the British Archaeological Reports Series.
You should also look at the two exhibition catalogues 'Phoenix aus Sande und Asche' held in Basel in 1988 and 'A travers la verre' held in Rouen in ?1989 which both include information on glassworking and include finds such as crucibles. I don't have them to hand but could send you full references if you can't find them.
Best wishes
Justine
Dr Justine Bayley
English Heritage
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Eastney
Portsmouth PO4 9LD
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Subject: Glass and early medieval court workshops
Dear list members,
Glass isn't a really metal, OK, but not too far from it when
it comes to it's use in social life - connected to luxury,
prestige, power and trade.
Do You know any particular studies dealing with early medieval
glass workshops - in Britain and elsewhere - connected to court
workshops and metalworking, that You would like to recommend?
I'd be glad for any resources - from dissertations to smaller
papers.
Best wishes,
Anders Söderberg
Stockholm
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