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Technology in Transition A.D. 300-650

Author : Luke Lavan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047433041
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Technology in Transition A.D. 300-650 written by Luke Lavan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first general work to be published on technology in Late Antiquity. It seeks to survey aspects of the technology of the period and to respond to questions about technological continuity, stagnation and decline. The book opens with a comprehensive bibliographic essay that provides an overview of relevant literature. The main section then explores technologies in agriculture, production (metal, ceramics and glass), engineering and building. Papers draw on both archaeological and textual sources, and on analogies with medieval and early modern technologies. Reference is made not only to the periods which preceded it, but to the transition to the Early Middle Ages and to the technological heritage of Late Antiquity to the Islamic world. Several papers focus on Italy, whilst others consider North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Near-East.

Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019879066X
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World written by Andrew Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discuss trade within the Roman Empire and beyond its frontiers between c.100 BC and AD 350, focusing especially on the role of the Roman state in shaping the institutional framework for trade. As part of a novel interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the chapters address its myriad facets on the basis of broadly different sources of evidence - historical, papyrological, andarchaeological - demonstrating how collaborations with the elite holders of wealth within the empire fundamentally changed its political character in the longer term.

East of the Theater

Author : Anastassios C. Antonaras
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 : 1621390438
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book East of the Theater written by Anastassios C. Antonaras and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corinth has been an important site for the study of ancient glass since the pioneering work of Gladys Davidson Weinberg. This volume presents the first attempt at Corinth to analyze the entire corpus of glass found in a single area, that located just east of the Theater, the focus of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies in the 1980s. These excavations revealed a north-south street that flanked the Theater, as well as a series of buildings to its east, part of a residential neighborhood ranging in date from the Early Roman to the Early Byzantine period. In this volume-the first of the final reports from the East of Theater excavations-the author presents the glass finds, including over 450 cataloged examples of glassworking remains, vessel glass, and non-vessel glass. Significantly, these finds reveal shifting patterns in vessel types, manufacturing techniques, and trade, as well as evidence for local glass production throughout these periods. Included among the finds are fragments of two opus sectile panels, evidence of the type of luxurious decoration that once existed in these structures. This groundbreaking study provides a tantalizing glimpse into the lives of everyday Corinthians, advancing glass studies both within Greece and throughout the Mediterranean.

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Publisher : TheBookEdition
ISBN 13 : 2958976513
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (589 download)

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Textual Spaces

Author : Andrew Rothwell
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051831504
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Textual Spaces written by Andrew Rothwell and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy

Author : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107495563
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy written by Walter Scheidel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers readers a comprehensive and innovative introduction to the economy of the Roman Empire. Focusing on the principal determinants, features and consequences of Roman economic development and integrating additional web-based materials, it is designed as an up-to-date survey that is accessible to all audiences. Five main sections discuss theoretical approaches drawn from economics, labor regimes, the production of power and goods, various means of distribution from markets to predation, and the success and ultimate failure of the Roman economy. The book not only covers traditionally prominent features such as slavery, food production and monetization but also highlights the importance of previously neglected aspects such as the role of human capital, energy generation, rent-taking, logistics and human wellbeing, and convenes a group of five experts to debate the nature of Roman trade.

Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

Author : D. J. Mattingly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108186998
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond written by D. J. Mattingly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saharan trade has been much debated in modern times, but the main focus of interest remains the medieval and early modern periods, for which more abundant written sources survive. The pre-Islamic origins of Trans-Saharan trade have been hotly contested over the years, mainly due to a lack of evidence. Many of the key commodities of trade are largely invisible archaeologically, being either of high value like gold and ivory, or organic like slaves and textiles or consumable commodities like salt. However, new research on the Libyan people known as the Garamantes and on their trading partners in the Sudan and Mediterranean Africa requires us to revise our views substantially. In this volume experts re-assess the evidence for a range of goods, including beads, textiles, metalwork and glass, and use it to paint a much more dynamic picture, demonstrating that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought.

Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World

Author : Patrick Degryse
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462700079
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Book Synopsis Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World by : Patrick Degryse

Download or read book Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World written by Patrick Degryse and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New insights into the trade and processing of mineral raw materials for glass making - Free ebook at OAPEN Library (www.oapen.org) This book presents a reconstruction of the Hellenistic-Roman glass industry from the point of view of raw material procurement. Within the ERC funded ARCHGLASS project, the authors of this work developed new geochemical techniques to provenance primary glass making. They investigated both production and consumer sites of glass, and identified suitable mineral resources for glass making through geological prospecting. Because the source of the raw materials used in the manufacturing of natron glass can be determined, new insights in the trade of this material are revealed. While eastern Mediterranean glass factories were active throughout the Hellenistic to early Islamic period, western Mediterranean and possibly Italian and North African sources also supplied the Mediterranean world with raw glass in early Roman times. By combining archaeological and scientific data, the authors develop new interdisciplinary techniques for an innovative archaeological interpretation of glass trade in the Hellenistic-Roman world, highlighting the development of glass as an economic material. Contributors Annelore Blomme (KU Leuven), Sara Boyen (KU Leuven), Dieter Brems (KU Leuven), Florence Cattin (Université de Bourgogne), Mike Carremans (KU Leuven), Veerle Devulder (KU Leuven, UGent), Thomas Fenn (Yale University), Monica Ganio (Northwestern University), Johan Honings (KU Leuven), Rebecca Scott (KU Leuven)

An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers from A to Z

Author : Michaël Abecassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527512053
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers from A to Z written by Michaël Abecassis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every musical form has had an impact on the linguistic practices of our society. French song is a vector of cultural, social, and stylistic values. Throughout the world, songs in the French language are used in the teaching of French: professors incorporate songs into the curriculum in order to illustrate differences of register and linguistic variation, as well as to raise lexical or grammatical questions. As a form of popular expression, song is a genre that has, in recent years, become the focus of serious academic scholarship and criticism. However, few linguists have paid attention to French song and its linguistic uses. This richly illustrated mini-dictionary about French singers fills this gap by offering a collection of portraits of the greatest singers of the French language and how they have constructed the musical landscape in both France and the larger francophone community and the world as a whole. Through (re)discovering these classic and contemporary artists who contribute to the creation of the sonorous universe of the 20th and 21st centuries, the volume determines how these musical genres influence the French language and nourish our collective imagination. By plunging into francophone song, one can achieve a better understanding of the culture and the language of its speakers.

A Matter of Blue

Author : Jean-Michel Maulpoix
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781929918676
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Blue written by Jean-Michel Maulpoix and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In A Matter of Blue, we read that blue is what we would like to cultivate, something that clings to bees' feet and the poet's lips, something that can be used as a basis for composition or creation, something that is inherent in the gaze of the dark-eyed women . . ."--Dawn Cornelio A Matter of Blue is the most successful book by Maulpoix, author of over 25 French collections of poetry and the rightful heir to the 150-year tradition of French prose poetry. Jean-Michel Maulpoix (www.maulpoix.net) is director of a quarterly literary journal and professor of poetry at University Paris X-Nanterre. Dawn Cornelio wrote her PhD thesis on translating Maulpoix. She is assistant professor of French studies at University of Guelph, Ontario.

Isotopes in Vitreous Materials

Author : Patrick Degryse
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058676900
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Isotopes in Vitreous Materials written by Patrick Degryse and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all artifacts that are to serve as archaeological evidence, the study of the provenance, production technology, and trade of raw materials must be based on archaeometry. Currently, these questions are addressed by the use of radiogenic isotope analysis. The book captures the state of the art in this rapidly advancing field. It includes methodological papers on isotope analysis, innovative applications of several isotope systems to current questions in glass and glaze research, and advances in the knowledge of the economy of vitreous materials.

Racialized Commodities

Author : Christopher Stedman Parmenter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197757111
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Racialized Commodities written by Christopher Stedman Parmenter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between c. 700-300 BCE, the ancient Greeks developed a vivid imaginary of the world's peoples. Ranging from the light-skinned, "gray-eyed Thracians" of the distant north to the "dark-skinned Ethiopians" of the far south (as the poet Xenophanes would describe around 540 BCE), Greeks envisioned a world populated by human groups with distinct physiognomies. Racialized Commodities traces how Greece's 'racial imaginary'-a confluence of thinking about cultural geography, commodity production, and human physiognomy-emerged out of the context of cross-cultural trade between Greece and its Mediterranean neighbors over the Archaic and Classical Periods. For merchants, the racial imaginary might be used to play up the 'exotic' provenance of their goods to consumers; it might also circulate practical information about customs, pricing, navigation, and doing business in foreign ports. Archaic Greek attempts to explain foreign bodies were rarely pejorative. But at in the early Classical Period-as Achaemenid Persia loomed, and as Greek cities became increasingly dependent on enslaved labor-such images coalesced into the charged, idea of the barbaros, 'barbarian.' Drawing from the historiography of trade in the eighteenth century Atlantic world, Racialized Commodities adopts the model of 'commodity biography' to investigate the entanglement of cultures, bodies, and things in Archaic and Classical Greece. Starting in the period c. 700-450 BCE, Part 1 focuses on the earliest images of African peoples, described by Greeks as Egyptians or Ethiopians, in Greek art. Part 2, which concentrates on the period between 550-300 BCE, seeks to explain how and why negative stereotypes of Thracians and Scythians were so widespread in ancient Greece"--

The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World

Author : John Peter Oleson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199734852
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World written by John Peter Oleson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is relevant to engineering and technology. This text highlights the accomplishments of the ancient societies, the research problems, and stimulates further progress in the history of ancient technology.

The Economics of the Roman Stone Trade

Author : Ben Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192590529
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Economics of the Roman Stone Trade written by Ben Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of stone in vast quantities is a ubiquitous and defining feature of the material culture of the Roman world. In this volume, Russell provides a new and wide-ranging examination of the production, distribution, and use of carved stone objects throughout the Roman world, including how enormous quantities of high-quality white and polychrome marbles were moved all around the Mediterranean to meet the demand for exotic material. The long-distance supply of materials for artistic and architectural production, not to mention the trade in finished objects like statues and sarcophagi, is one of the most remarkable features of the Roman world. Despite this, it has never received much attention in mainstream economic studies. Focusing on the market for stone and its supply, the administration, distribution, and chronology of quarrying, and the practicalities of stone transport, Russell offers a detailed assessment of the Roman stone trade and how the relationship between producer and customer functioned even over considerable distances.

Ancient Glass

Author : Julian Henderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619373
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Glass written by Julian Henderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of archaeological glass in which technological, historical, geological, chemical, and cultural aspects of the study of ancient glass are combined. The book examines why and how this unique material was invented some 4,500 years ago and considers the ritual, social, economic, and political contexts of its development. The book also provides an in-depth consideration of glass as a material, the raw materials used to make it, and its wide range of chemical compositions in both the East and the West from its invention to the seventeenth century AD. Julian Henderson focuses on three contrasting archaeological and scientific case studies: Late Bronze Age glass, late Hellenistic-early Roman glass, and Islamic glass in the Middle East. He considers in detail the provenances of ancient glass using scientific techniques and discusses a range of vessels and their uses in ancient societies.

Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Author : Georgia L. Irby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350155853
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity written by Georgia L. Irby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic infrastructure (e.g., aqueducts). Waterways were 'improved' and made accessible by harbors, canals, and lighthouses. The Mediterranean Sea and Outer Ocean (and numerous rivers) were mastered by navigation for warfare, exploration, settlement, maritime trade, and the exploitation of marine resources (such as fishing). These waterways were also a robust source of propaganda on coins, public monuments, and poetic encomia as governments vied to establish, maintain, or spread their identities and predominance. This first complete study of the ancient scientific and public engagement with water makes a major contribution to classics, geography, hydrology and the history of science alike. In the ancient Mediterranean Basin, water was a powerful tool of human endeavor, employed for industry, trade, hunting and fishing, and as an element in luxurious aesthetic installations (public and private fountains). The relationship was complex and pervasive, touching on every aspect of human life, from mundane acts of collecting water for the household, to private and public issues of comfort and health (latrines, sewers, baths), to the identity of the state writ large.

National Library News

Author : National Library of Canada
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book National Library News written by National Library of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: