The Roman Craftworkers of Late Antiquity

A Social History of Glass Production and Related Industries

AvHallie G. Meredith

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Craftworkers throughout history have nearly always worked anonymously, often as valuable assistants in the service of famed artisans but typically without proper credit or recognition. However, an unsigned piece can nevertheless reveal a world. While these craftworkers' names may be lost to history, their contributions can be properly acknowledged and their working realities in large part reconstructed through fresh methodological approaches to architectural, artefactual and epigraphic evidence and other sources. In this book, which will interest scholars in a wide range of fields, Hallie Meredith sheds new light on the crucially important but largely neglected work of fourth- to sixth-century Roman artists in traditional craft materials and processes, such as glass, ivory and marble carving. She uses these case studies to provide insights not just into the past but also into the continuing realities of uncredited creative labourers today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-30
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:502
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009773393

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Hallie G. Meredith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Washington State University. She is a former glassblower, and her most recent book is Word Becomes Image: Openwork Vessels as a Reflection of Late Antique Transformation (2015). She has also edited and contributed to journal special issues, Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (2024) and World Archaeology (2024).

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Introduction: 1. Uncovering the unknown Roman craftworker; 2. Art and work beyond binaries: towards a historiography and new history of the unknown maker; 3. Glass in the making; Part II. Discovering the Unknown Maker: 4. The business of Late Roman making: creating communities of practice; 5. What's in a name? Gendered anonymity, slavery and the Late Roman craftworker; 6. Approaching Late Roman mobile craftworkers; Part III. Late Roman Process Art: 7. Late Roman process art: maker, making and the intentionally unfinished; 8. Late Roman work/shops and interactions between craftworkers and the consumer; 9. Experiencing objects in the fourth century: the role of anonymous makers in multisensory engagement; Part IV. Tools, Objects and Anonymous Makers in Inter-industry Relations: 10. From bath to glass: The repurposing of Late Roman furnaces and their significance in inter-industry relations; 11. Anonymous animals and their anonymous makers 'revealed': early Islamic glass containers as an index of labourers, designers and merchants; 12. Anonymous artists in-process.