CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Gacsi, Monika |
|---|---|
| Title | Looking at the Past through Medieval Glass: Medieval Glass Workshops in the Carpathian Basin |
| Summary | The thesis concentrates on the working process and technology of medieval glassmaking. This analysis is limited to the eleventh -sixteenth centuries. While its spatial frame is the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, meaning modern-day Hungary, parts of Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, and Ukraine. The aim of this thesis is to examine how a medieval glass workshop functioned and what did it need to manufacture finished products in the Carpathian Basin. Therefore, the first chapter evaluates written and visual sources on glassmaking technologies, furnaces and needs of a functioning workshop. The second chapter collects the indicators of a glasswork site and analyses the written sources and the reports of the non-destructive archaeological surveys based on them. The third chapter studies the excavated sites (Pásztó, Diósjenő, Pomáz – Nagykovácsi, Visegrád – Rév utca 5) and reviews their place in the traditional typology. The fourth chapter investigates the installation factors of a glass workshop like constant water, firewood, and ingredients; as well as the less obvious connections to roads, potteries and smithies. The last chapter of the thesis turns towards the analyzation of the social status of glaziers and their working conditions. In conclusion, the thesis could examine the glass workshops from a different approach, which is hitherto less common in the Hungarian research. It analyzed the context and environment in which a medieval glasswork could function. |
| Supervisor | Laszlovszky, Jozsef; Choyke, Alice Mathea |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/gacsi_monika.pdf |
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