English Medieval Industries: Craftsmen, Techniques, ProductsJohn Blair, W. John Blair, Nigel Ramsay English Medieval Industries is an authoritative modern survey of medieval crafts and their products. It is heavily illustrated by pictures of surviving objects and contemporary representations of medieval work. Each industry is approached by material (amongst others stone, tin, lead, copper, iron, brick, glass, leather, bone and wood), discussing its acquisition, working and sale as a finished product. The contributors are the leading experts in their fields. They describe the specialist work that went to make the housing, clothing, tools, vessels and ornaments of medieval people. A general bibliography provides a valuable reference tool. |
Contents
Stone David Parsons | 1 |
Alabaster Nigel Ramsay | 29 |
Purbeck Marble John Blair | 41 |
Tin Lead and Pewter Ronald F Homer | 57 |
Copper Alloys Claude Blair and John Blair | 81 |
Gold Silver and Precious Stones Marian Campbell | 107 |
Iron Jane Geddes | 167 |
Pottery and Tile John Cherry | 189 |
Vessel Glass R J Charleston | 237 |
Window Glass Richard Marks | 265 |
Leather John Cherry | 295 |
Textiles Penelope Walton | 319 |
Antler Bone and Horn Arthur MacGregor | 355 |
Wood Julian Munby | 379 |
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Common terms and phrases
14th century 2nd edn Abbey accounts Age of Chivalry alabaster alloy Anglo-Saxon antler Arch archaeological bone brasiers brass bricks Building in England carved cast Castle Cathedral Chapel church clay cloth coloured copper craft craftsmen decorative early 14th enamel England engraved evidence example excavated Exeter Exeter Cathedral furnace gilds glass glass-maker glaziers glazing gold goldsmiths H.M. Colvin Henry Hist History horn Ibid important industry iron jewellery John kilns King's King's Lynn late latten lead leather Lehmann-Brockhaus Letter-Book makers marblers marks masons material Medieval medieval period merchants metal Middle Ages Minster Monumental Brasses mould Museum of London Oxford pewter plate pots pottery probably production Purbeck marble quarry recorded Romanesque Art roof royal Salzman silver Smith stone surviving tanners Tattershall Castle Textiles Theophilus tiles timber tomb towns trade Weald Westminster William Winchester wood wooden wool workshop York York Minster