Glassmaking in medieval technical literature in the Iberian Peninsula

Medieval technical texts and experimental approaches. A theoretical perspective on the value of technical recipes as sources to reconstruct the history of medieval glassmaking practices

“…134-136. glass, and that their role was, in fact, not to act as means to transmit technological practices. 10 For clarification, by 'recipe' we refer to texts or fragments within larger texts that explicitly aim to provide instructions to carry out, or describe the process of, a technical procedure of some sort, such as making glass or glazing pottery. As noted, the purpose of these is often unclear, so it must not be assumed that the author or copyist of the recipe intended for their instructions to be implemented in practice.…”

Recipientes islámicos de vidrio dorado encapsulado: evidencias en al-Andalus

“…No obstante, los estudios sobre vidrio andalusí han sido hasta la fecha escasos, entre los que cabe destacar los volúmenes colectivos editados por P. Cressier (2000) y E. Rontomé (2006). En los últimos años, dicha deficiencia está siendo subsanada por el creciente interés de estos materiales para la reconstrucción de los patrones tipológico-tecnológicos de esta clase de manufactura y su implicación económica y social dentro de la población andalusí (De Juan y Schibille, 2017; De Juan, Cáceres y Schibille, 2018;De Juan et al, 2021;Duckworth et al, 2015;Govantes-Edwards et al, 2016;Govantes-Edwards, López y Duckworth, 2020;Schibille et al, 2020).…”