Overview: craft production and technology
Gabor Thomas
Abstract A growing battery of analytical techniques now exists for determining the chemical or elemental composition an object to source its raw materials. The developing relationship between craft specialization and political centralization can be traced with some clarity during mid Saxon period. tenth eleventh centuries presented beginnings a radical shift in location production from countryside into urban sphere. Workshops service late Anglo-Saxon Church were no less innovative than ones supplying lay market. ninth-century plan Carolingian monastery St. Gall suggests that more formalized layout reformed institutions may have had constraining effect on spatial setting craftwork activity, contrast generalized spread seen sites.
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