MOHAMMED, CHARLEMAGNE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GLASS IN THE MAKING OF MEDIEVALEUROPE
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 2021-01-11

This talk will review the Pirenne thesis and the importance of glass-making, recycling glass and its symbolic significance in the revival of Europe as a political and trading entity in the 8th and 9th centuries. Examples will be drawn from recent research from numerous excavations in Albania, Italy, Germany, the Low Countries and the Baltic states. Glass more than any other medium offers archaeology the means to define the importance of Carolingian Renaissance, a key element in Pirenne’s enduring thesis.


Author(s): Hodges, Richard (The American University of Rome)