CORDIScovery Ep.9: Cloth, glass and stone: Innovation and cultural connections in the Middle Ages
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The objects we have around us tell us much about who we are: what we can manufacture, what is considered desirable, what we can afford, what we can produce, and export, and our trade routes. The past is shadowy but the objects that mattered to the societies that came before us illuminate those who produced and used them in the same way. So, this episode we are considering cloth, glass and stone, and what they reveal about innovation and cultural connections in the middle-ages. What can textile production in Romano-Byzantine Egypt can tell us about that culture? Who wove what, and how? Glass is a demanding medium, both technologically and logistically, and how it was used in Byzantine and Islamic cultures shines a light on their aesthetics and innovations. The way glass was used reveals cultural dynamics as do the medieval headstones in Western Balkans. What do these weathered stones tell us about how different cultures in this period lived alongside each other.
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