Transfer of Glass Manufacturing Technology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries from Southern to Northern Europe: Using Trace Element Patterns to Reveal the Spread from Venice via Antwerp to London

Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass, Volume I

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 537-562

  Janssens, K ^a   Cagno, S ^a   De Raedt, I ^a   Degryse, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amsterdam; Antwerp; Fa on de Venise glass; Isotopic analysis; London; Plant ash soda glass; Rare earth elements; Technology transfer; Trace analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886646029     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118314234.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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