Seeking Transparency: Rock Crystals Across the Medieval Mediterranean

by Hara Procopiou, Avinoam Shalem, Stephane Pradines, et al.

English summary: All the while, royal courts and wealthy churches were eager patrons for the luxurious objects given that rock crystal was valued as one of the most desirable and precious of all materials, ascribed mysterious origins and powers, and renowned for both rarity and clarity. This collection of essays reveals the global and cross-cultural histories of rock-crystal production in and even beyond the lands of the Mediterranean Sea...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 378612843X
• ISBN13: 9783786128434
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Gebruder Mann Verlag
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.8"