Technology in transition : A.D. 300-650 / edited by Luke Lavan, Enrico Zanini and Alexander Sarantis ; with the assistance of Ine Jacobs, Dirk Booms, Bart de Graeve.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Explaining technological change: innovation, stagnation, recession and replacement -- The transmission of craft techniques according to the principles of material culture: continuity and rupture -- Technology in Late Antiquity: a bibliographic essay -- Metal technology in Late Antiquity: a bibliographic note -- Glass technology in Late Antiquity: a bibliographic note -- Water into wine: trade and technology in Late Antiquity -- Wine-making after Pliny: viticulture and farming technology in Late Antiquity Italy -- Absent-minded landlords and innovating peasants? The press in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean -- Ceramic production in Africa during Late Antiquity: continuity and change -- Form, function and technology in pottery production from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages -- Metal production in Late Antiquity: from continuity of knowledge to changes in consumption -- Glass in Late Antiquity: the continuity of technology and sources of supply -- Glass in Late Antiquity in The Near East -- The infrastructue of a great city: earth, walls and water in Late Antique Constantinople -- Water technology at Gortyn in the 4th-7th c. A.D.: transport, storage and distribution -- Late Antique urban streets at Sagalassos -- Antique engineering in the Byzantine world -- Technology and ideas: architects and master-builgers in the Early Byzantine world -- The art of building in Milan during Late Antiquity: San Lorenzo Maggiore -- Public and private building activity in Late Antique Rome -- Architecture and infrastructure in the Early Medieval village: the case of Tuscany -- Umayyad building techniques and the merging of Roman-Byzantine and Partho-Sassanian traditions: continuity and change.

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A book on technology in Late Antiquity. It surveys aspects of the technology of the period and to respond to questions about technological continuity, stagnation and decline.

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