Technology in Transition A.D. 300-650

Abstract

Acknowledgements ... ix Introduction Explaining Technological Change: Innovation, Stagnation, Recession and Replacement ... xv Luke Lavan The Transmission of Craft Techniques according to the Principles of Material Culture: Continuity and Rupture .. xli Tiziano Mannoni Bibliographic Essays Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay ... 3 Philip Bes Metal Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Note ... 41 Nathalie Kellens Glass Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Note .. 53 Veerle Lauwers Agriculture Water into Wine: Trade and Technology in Late Antiquity ... 65 Michael Decker Wine-Making after Pliny: Viticulture and Farming Technology in Late Antique Italy .. 93 Jeremy Rossiter Absent-Minded Landlords and Innovating Peasants? The Press in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean .. 119 Tamara Lewit Production Ceramic Production in Africa during Late Antiquity: Continuity and Change .. 143 Michel Bonifay Form, Function and Technology in Pottery Production from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages ... 159 Paul Arthur Metal Production in Late Antiquity: from Continuity of Knowledge to Changes in Consumption ... 187 Enrico Giannichedda Glass in Late Antiquity: The Continuity of Technology and Sources of Supply ... 211 Lucia Sagui Glass in Late Antiquity in The Near East ... 233 Margaret O'Hea Engineering The Infrastructure of a Great City: Earth, Walls and Water in Late Antique Constantinople .. 251 James Crow Water Technology at Gortyn in the 4th-7th c. A.D.: Transport, Storage and Distribution .. 287 Elisabetta Giorgi Late Antique Urban Streets at Sagalassos ... 321 Femke Martens Antique Engineering in the Byzantine World ... 367 Michael J. T. Lewis Building Technology and Ideas: Architects and Master-Builders in the Early Byzantine World ... 381 Enrico Zanini The Art of Building in Milan during Late Antiquity: San Lorenzo Maggiore ... 407 Laura Fieni Public and Private Building Activity in Late Antique Rome .. 435 Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani Architecture and Infrastructure in the Early Medieval Village: the Case of Tuscany ... 451 Marco Valenti Umayyad Building Techniques and the Merging of Roman-Byzantine and Partho-Sassanian Traditions: Continuity and Change .. 491 Ignacio Arce Index ... 539