Modern methods for analysing archaeological and historical glass

Contents

Vol. 1. What is glass? -- Raw materials, recipes and procedures used for glass making -- Colouring, decolouring and opacifying of glass -- Glass compositions over several millennia in the western world -- X-ray based methods of analysis -- Electron microscopy -- Ion-beam analysis methods -- Application of neutron activation analysis to archaeological studies of natural and man-made glasses -- Glass characterisation using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry methods -- Isotope-ratio techniques in glass studies -- Surface analysis -- Non-destructive raman analysis of ancient glasses and glazes -- The use of x-ray absorption spectroscopy in historical glass research -- Vol. 2. Provenance analysis of glass artefacts -- Glass at el-Amarna -- Evolution of vitreous materials in Bronze Age Italy -- Black-appearing Roman glass -- Glass compositions of the Merovingian period in Western Europe -- Glass in South Asia -- Early glass in Southeast Asia -- Glass trade between the Middle East and Asia -- European glass trade beads in northeastern North America -- Medieval glass-making and -working in Tuscany and Liguria (Italy); Towards a standard methodology for the classification of glass-making and glass-working indicators -- Venetian soda glass -- 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 -- Seventeenth-century varec glass from the Great Hall of Mirrors at Versailles -- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English lead glass -- Metal nanoparticles in glass : lustre -- Glass degradation by liquids and atmospheric agents -- Corrosion of stained glass windows : applied study of Spanish monuments of different periods -- Novel methods of evaluation for the conservation of browned historical stained glass.