CRUSADERGLASS · Glass at the Time of the Crusades: A new source for the socio-economic history of the Levant?

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Project objective

The so-called Mediterranean commercial revolution of the central middle ages coupled with the Crusader occupation of the Levant utterly reshaped the region's socio-economic landscape, leading to an increase in commercial exchange and markets, urban production and socio-cultural interaction. This project uses the important evidence from glass to assess technologies of production and patterns of circulation and trade in a period of significant change. Through an interdisciplinary approach that integrates chemical analysis, archaeological evidence and historical records, I will investigate the contribution that glass can provide in shielding new light on the complex and poorly understood socio-economic relationships in the medieval Levant.

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Participants

• KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenCoordinatorBelgium

Links

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• DOI: 10.3030/101205053
• https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e52e369dec&appId=PPGMS