Colin Duckworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1075361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Duckworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Duckworth |
| SIGNATURE | DUCKWORTH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5454-8122 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Atlantic Road. Late Antique/Early Medieval Glass Trade in the Iberian North-West
[EN] This article reviews the position of the north-western Iberian Peninsula in trade networks in the European Atlantic façade in the 6th and early 7th centuries ad, particularly the role played by the harbour of Vigo. The scale and dimension of the Atlantic route in late-antique/early-medieval trade are examined in light of both the archaeological and historical records. Importantly, the position held by glass in this trade is examined in depth…
El consumo de vidrio en el arrabal de La Arrixaca (Murcia)
El estudio de los fragmentos de vidrio procedentes del Conjunto Arqueológico de San Esteban, un sector del arrabal andalusí de la ciudad de Murcia en los siglos XII y XIII, ofrece información relevante sobre la producción de vidrio en al-Andalus, al tratarse de un conjunto de piezas procedente de una excavación arqueológica sistemática. El análisis tipológico de los hallazgos en las campañas de 2018 y 2019 se desglosa mediante una clasificación f…
The glass from the arrabal of Arrixaca (Murcia, 12th-13th centuries)
This article presents an assemblage of 36 glass samples excavated in the urban site of San Esteban, part of the arrabal of Arrixaca (Murcia) (in al-Andalus, an arrabal was a relatively dense urbanised area outside the city walls) in contexts securely dated to the 12th and early 13th century, spanning the rule of Ibn Mardanīš, and the early period of Almohad domination in the city. The samples were analysed by electron microprobe (EMPA) for major …
El taller vidriero de los siglos IV-V de la Insula II del Molinete (Cartagena, España)
La excavación arqueológica de la denominada Insula II del Molinete (Cartagena, provincia de Murcia, España) permitió documentar un santuario isiaco activo desde finales del siglo I al III. Tras su amortización y abandono, sus estructuras fueron ocupadas entre el segundo cuarto/mediados del siglo IV y la primera mitad del V por sendos talleres artesanales dedicados a la fabricación de vidrio y hierro. En este trabajo se caracterizan dichas instala…
Recipientes islámicos de vidrio dorado encapsulado
Dentro del repertorio de la vajilla de vidrio andalusí son escasos los testimonios que se conocen de vidrios dorados. Por este motivo, se ha procedido al análisis morfológico y comparativo de un conjunto de fragmentos, la gran mayoría inéditos, hallados en contextos arqueológicos bien documentados, concretamente de Madinat Ilbira (Granada), el arrabal noroccidental de Qurtuba (Córdoba) y el Conjunto Arqueológico de San Esteban (Murcia), con el ob…
Text, practice, and experience
How might an interdisciplinary approach involving experimental archaeology improve our knowledge of glassmaking in medieval Iberia? Our current limited understanding lacks an appreciation of how surviving remains were created through the actual practice of glassmaking—herein lies the biggest single gap in knowledge. Archaeological experiments show that while the infima glassmaking recipe offers a credible guide to basic glassmaking technology, it…
Technology in the Sahara and Beyond
The concluding discussion in this chapter addresses several issues. In the first place it draws together the threads of discussion that run through the individual chapters relating to the nature of technology and technological transfer in the Sahara. It reflects on ‘what is a mobile technology?’, ‘how to study technology in the Sahara’, ‘difficulties and solutions’ and ‘connections’. The second half of the chapter broadens the discussion to consi…
Shattering Illusions
This chapter reports analysis of glass from the Garamantian heartlands in the central (Libyan) Sahara, including several fragments of imported Roman vessel glass. Results are contextualised within those of other published studies to develop a broader picture against which new analyses can be interpreted. The chapter aims to demonstrate the crucial importance of moving beyond a simple association between composition and provenance. Less archaeolog…
Introduction
The importance of creating space for discussion between specialists lies at the heart of this volume. Many approaches to the study of past recycling and reuse enjoy shared methodologies and theoretical perspectives, so we can all learn from one another in this way. Furthermore, it is likely that the same agents were often responsible for the recycling (and to a lesser extent, reuse) of a whole range of materials, due to shared knowledge (e.g. of …
Glassmaking in medieval technical literature in the Iberian Peninsula
This paper examines glassmaking in medieval Iberia from the point of view of technical literature, especially recipe books and alchemical treatises, in an attempt to assess to what extent this literary genre (if it is to be defined as such) may have affected, or have been affected by, technological developments in glassmaking between the eighth and sixteenth centuries. Iberian technical literature on the making of glass is put in connection with …
Recipes and experimentation? The transmission of glassmaking techniques in Medieval Iberia
This paper explores the potential of a combined historical and archaeological approach to the study of glass production in the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Middle Ages. The historical study of technical recipes compiled during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period and the compositional analysis of archaeological material offer different, but equally valuable, insights into glass production. The methodologies, potential and limitations…
From the Mediterranean to the Libyan Sahara. Chemical analyses of Garamantian glass
Non-destructive μXRF analysis of glass and metal objects from sites in the Libyan pre-desert and Fazzan
This paper reports on the non-destructive analysis of 42 samples of copper alloy and glass from sites in Libya, using semi-quantitative μXRF, carried out as part of the work of the Trans-Sahara Project funded by the European Research Council. These are among the first chemical analyses to be performed on metals and glasses of any period found in Libya, and the results – though preliminary – raise some interesting possibilities. In particular, we …
Electron Microprobe Analysis of 9th-12th Century Islamic Glass from Córdoba, Spain
Twenty-six samples from domestic assemblages of 9th–12th century Córdoba were subjected to electron microprobe analysis. The results reveal two main compositional types. The first, encountered in 13 of the samples, seems to result from the combination of plant ashes with high-impurity sand, and has some contemporary parallels from Syria and Egypt. The second type is a lead–soda–silica glass, encountered in a relatively high proportion of the glas…
Marcel and Albertine
Translated and adapted by Colin Duckworth from Marcel Proust's novel 'A la recherche du temps perdu' ('In search of lost (and wasted) time'). First performed at the Stork Hotel Theatre, Melbourne March-April 2007
Transladaptation
Opacifiers in Late Bronze Age glasses
Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is applied to the study of four samples of opaque glass of Late Bronze Age date. The technique is uniquely capable of identifying compositional heterogeneity at a sub-micron resolution within the crystalline opacifiers dispersed through homogeneous glass matrices. It is shown that this provides crucial information on the possible raw ingredients of the opacifying inclusions used, and has t…
Imitation, Artificiality and Creation
The introduction and use of glass in Late Bronze Age Egypt (18th to 19th Dynasties) is discussed from a materiality-based approach. It is suggested that the artificiality of this new material was deliberately proclaimed, highlighting the ability of those behind its production to access the processes of creation and transformation. Colour is central to the arguments presented, and it is suggested that glass was valued for its ability to fully assu…
En attendant Godot
Compagnie et solitude
S. Becket explore en anthropologue attriste de la condition humaine un reseau de rapports montrant l'individu dans sa solitude fondamentale et sa recherche de signification objective. L'A. le rapproche de Sartre, Marcuse et Camus
Le Comte d'Antraigues
Beckett's Educations Sentimentales
Literature under Fire
The Fortunes of Voltaire's Foppington
Flaubert and the Legend of St Julian
Journal Article FLAUBERT AND THE LEGEND OF ST JULIAN: A NON-EXCLUSIVE VIEW OF SOURCES Get access COLIN DUCKWORTH COLIN DUCKWORTH LONDON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXII, Issue 2, April 1968, Pages 107–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXII.2.107 Published: 01 April 1968
Recipes and experimentation? The transmission of glassmaking techniques in Medieval Iberia
This paper explores the potential of a combined historical and archaeological approach to the study of glass production in the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Middle Ages. The historical study of technical recipes compiled during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period and the compositional analysis of archaeological material offer different, but equally valuable, insights into glass production. The methodologies, potential and limitations…
Electron Microprobe Analysis of 9th-12th Century Islamic Glass from Córdoba, Spain
Twenty-six samples from domestic assemblages of 9th–12th century Córdoba were subjected to electron microprobe analysis. The results reveal two main compositional types. The first, encountered in 13 of the samples, seems to result from the combination of plant ashes with high-impurity sand, and has some contemporary parallels from Syria and Egypt. The second type is a lead–soda–silica glass, encountered in a relatively high proportion of the glas…
Opacifiers in Late Bronze Age glasses
Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is applied to the study of four samples of opaque glass of Late Bronze Age date. The technique is uniquely capable of identifying compositional heterogeneity at a sub-micron resolution within the crystalline opacifiers dispersed through homogeneous glass matrices. It is shown that this provides crucial information on the possible raw ingredients of the opacifying inclusions used, and has t…
Glassmaking in medieval technical literature in the Iberian Peninsula
This paper examines glassmaking in medieval Iberia from the point of view of technical literature, especially recipe books and alchemical treatises, in an attempt to assess to what extent this literary genre (if it is to be defined as such) may have affected, or have been affected by, technological developments in glassmaking between the eighth and sixteenth centuries. Iberian technical literature on the making of glass is put in connection with …
From the Mediterranean to the Libyan Sahara. Chemical analyses of Garamantian glass
El consumo de vidrio en el arrabal de La Arrixaca (Murcia)
El estudio de los fragmentos de vidrio procedentes del Conjunto Arqueológico de San Esteban, un sector del arrabal andalusí de la ciudad de Murcia en los siglos XII y XIII, ofrece información relevante sobre la producción de vidrio en al-Andalus, al tratarse de un conjunto de piezas procedente de una excavación arqueológica sistemática. El análisis tipológico de los hallazgos en las campañas de 2018 y 2019 se desglosa mediante una clasificación f…
El taller vidriero de los siglos IV-V de la Insula II del Molinete (Cartagena, España)
La excavación arqueológica de la denominada Insula II del Molinete (Cartagena, provincia de Murcia, España) permitió documentar un santuario isiaco activo desde finales del siglo I al III. Tras su amortización y abandono, sus estructuras fueron ocupadas entre el segundo cuarto/mediados del siglo IV y la primera mitad del V por sendos talleres artesanales dedicados a la fabricación de vidrio y hierro. En este trabajo se caracterizan dichas instala…
Text, practice, and experience
How might an interdisciplinary approach involving experimental archaeology improve our knowledge of glassmaking in medieval Iberia? Our current limited understanding lacks an appreciation of how surviving remains were created through the actual practice of glassmaking—herein lies the biggest single gap in knowledge. Archaeological experiments show that while the infima glassmaking recipe offers a credible guide to basic glassmaking technology, it…
Non-destructive μXRF analysis of glass and metal objects from sites in the Libyan pre-desert and Fazzan
This paper reports on the non-destructive analysis of 42 samples of copper alloy and glass from sites in Libya, using semi-quantitative μXRF, carried out as part of the work of the Trans-Sahara Project funded by the European Research Council. These are among the first chemical analyses to be performed on metals and glasses of any period found in Libya, and the results – though preliminary – raise some interesting possibilities. In particular, we …
The glass from the arrabal of Arrixaca (Murcia, 12th-13th centuries)
This article presents an assemblage of 36 glass samples excavated in the urban site of San Esteban, part of the arrabal of Arrixaca (Murcia) (in al-Andalus, an arrabal was a relatively dense urbanised area outside the city walls) in contexts securely dated to the 12th and early 13th century, spanning the rule of Ibn Mardanīš, and the early period of Almohad domination in the city. The samples were analysed by electron microprobe (EMPA) for major …
Imitation, Artificiality and Creation
The introduction and use of glass in Late Bronze Age Egypt (18th to 19th Dynasties) is discussed from a materiality-based approach. It is suggested that the artificiality of this new material was deliberately proclaimed, highlighting the ability of those behind its production to access the processes of creation and transformation. Colour is central to the arguments presented, and it is suggested that glass was valued for its ability to fully assu…
Albert Thibaudet and the Berger De Bellone
ALBERT THIBAUDET AND THE BERGER DE BELLONE Get access COLIN DUCKWORTH COLIN DUCKWORTH CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume VII, Issue 1, January 1953, Pages 18–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/VII.1.18 Published: 01 January 1953
The Historical and Dramatic Sources of Scribe's Verre d'EAU
Journal Article THE HISTORICAL AND DRAMATIC SOURCES OF SCRIBE'S VERRE D'EAU Get access COLIN DUCKWORTH COLIN DUCKWORTH LONDON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XII, Issue 1, January 1958, Pages 30–43, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XII.1.30 Published: 01 January 1958
Flaubert and the Legend of St Julian
Journal Article FLAUBERT AND THE LEGEND OF ST JULIAN: A NON-EXCLUSIVE VIEW OF SOURCES Get access COLIN DUCKWORTH COLIN DUCKWORTH LONDON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXII, Issue 2, April 1968, Pages 107–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXII.2.107 Published: 01 April 1968
The Fortunes of Voltaire's Foppington
Literature under Fire
Beckett's Educations Sentimentales
Le Comte d'Antraigues
Compagnie et solitude
S. Becket explore en anthropologue attriste de la condition humaine un reseau de rapports montrant l'individu dans sa solitude fondamentale et sa recherche de signification objective. L'A. le rapproche de Sartre, Marcuse et Camus
En attendant Godot
Opacifiers in Late Bronze Age glasses
Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is applied to the study of four samples of opaque glass of Late Bronze Age date. The technique is uniquely capable of identifying compositional heterogeneity at a sub-micron resolution within the crystalline opacifiers dispersed through homogeneous glass matrices. It is shown that this provides crucial information on the possible raw ingredients of the opacifying inclusions used, and has t…
Imitation, Artificiality and Creation
The introduction and use of glass in Late Bronze Age Egypt (18th to 19th Dynasties) is discussed from a materiality-based approach. It is suggested that the artificiality of this new material was deliberately proclaimed, highlighting the ability of those behind its production to access the processes of creation and transformation. Colour is central to the arguments presented, and it is suggested that glass was valued for its ability to fully assu…
Marcel and Albertine
Translated and adapted by Colin Duckworth from Marcel Proust's novel 'A la recherche du temps perdu' ('In search of lost (and wasted) time'). First performed at the Stork Hotel Theatre, Melbourne March-April 2007
Transladaptation
From the Mediterranean to the Libyan Sahara. Chemical analyses of Garamantian glass
Non-destructive μXRF analysis of glass and metal objects from sites in the Libyan pre-desert and Fazzan
This paper reports on the non-destructive analysis of 42 samples of copper alloy and glass from sites in Libya, using semi-quantitative μXRF, carried out as part of the work of the Trans-Sahara Project funded by the European Research Council. These are among the first chemical analyses to be performed on metals and glasses of any period found in Libya, and the results – though preliminary – raise some interesting possibilities. In particular, we …
Electron Microprobe Analysis of 9th-12th Century Islamic Glass from Córdoba, Spain
Twenty-six samples from domestic assemblages of 9th–12th century Córdoba were subjected to electron microprobe analysis. The results reveal two main compositional types. The first, encountered in 13 of the samples, seems to result from the combination of plant ashes with high-impurity sand, and has some contemporary parallels from Syria and Egypt. The second type is a lead–soda–silica glass, encountered in a relatively high proportion of the glas…
Recipes and experimentation? The transmission of glassmaking techniques in Medieval Iberia
This paper explores the potential of a combined historical and archaeological approach to the study of glass production in the Iberian Peninsula in the Late Middle Ages. The historical study of technical recipes compiled during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period and the compositional analysis of archaeological material offer different, but equally valuable, insights into glass production. The methodologies, potential and limitations…
Technology in the Sahara and Beyond
The concluding discussion in this chapter addresses several issues. In the first place it draws together the threads of discussion that run through the individual chapters relating to the nature of technology and technological transfer in the Sahara. It reflects on ‘what is a mobile technology?’, ‘how to study technology in the Sahara’, ‘difficulties and solutions’ and ‘connections’. The second half of the chapter broadens the discussion to consi…
Shattering Illusions
This chapter reports analysis of glass from the Garamantian heartlands in the central (Libyan) Sahara, including several fragments of imported Roman vessel glass. Results are contextualised within those of other published studies to develop a broader picture against which new analyses can be interpreted. The chapter aims to demonstrate the crucial importance of moving beyond a simple association between composition and provenance. Less archaeolog…
Introduction
The importance of creating space for discussion between specialists lies at the heart of this volume. Many approaches to the study of past recycling and reuse enjoy shared methodologies and theoretical perspectives, so we can all learn from one another in this way. Furthermore, it is likely that the same agents were often responsible for the recycling (and to a lesser extent, reuse) of a whole range of materials, due to shared knowledge (e.g. of …
Glassmaking in medieval technical literature in the Iberian Peninsula
This paper examines glassmaking in medieval Iberia from the point of view of technical literature, especially recipe books and alchemical treatises, in an attempt to assess to what extent this literary genre (if it is to be defined as such) may have affected, or have been affected by, technological developments in glassmaking between the eighth and sixteenth centuries. Iberian technical literature on the making of glass is put in connection with …
Text, practice, and experience
How might an interdisciplinary approach involving experimental archaeology improve our knowledge of glassmaking in medieval Iberia? Our current limited understanding lacks an appreciation of how surviving remains were created through the actual practice of glassmaking—herein lies the biggest single gap in knowledge. Archaeological experiments show that while the infima glassmaking recipe offers a credible guide to basic glassmaking technology, it…
Recipientes islámicos de vidrio dorado encapsulado
Dentro del repertorio de la vajilla de vidrio andalusí son escasos los testimonios que se conocen de vidrios dorados. Por este motivo, se ha procedido al análisis morfológico y comparativo de un conjunto de fragmentos, la gran mayoría inéditos, hallados en contextos arqueológicos bien documentados, concretamente de Madinat Ilbira (Granada), el arrabal noroccidental de Qurtuba (Córdoba) y el Conjunto Arqueológico de San Esteban (Murcia), con el ob…
El taller vidriero de los siglos IV-V de la Insula II del Molinete (Cartagena, España)
La excavación arqueológica de la denominada Insula II del Molinete (Cartagena, provincia de Murcia, España) permitió documentar un santuario isiaco activo desde finales del siglo I al III. Tras su amortización y abandono, sus estructuras fueron ocupadas entre el segundo cuarto/mediados del siglo IV y la primera mitad del V por sendos talleres artesanales dedicados a la fabricación de vidrio y hierro. En este trabajo se caracterizan dichas instala…
El consumo de vidrio en el arrabal de La Arrixaca (Murcia)
El estudio de los fragmentos de vidrio procedentes del Conjunto Arqueológico de San Esteban, un sector del arrabal andalusí de la ciudad de Murcia en los siglos XII y XIII, ofrece información relevante sobre la producción de vidrio en al-Andalus, al tratarse de un conjunto de piezas procedente de una excavación arqueológica sistemática. El análisis tipológico de los hallazgos en las campañas de 2018 y 2019 se desglosa mediante una clasificación f…
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