 | | Can I glass you a question? —Adam Murtha
| | | | I've been admiring my (Dan's) Blacksmith Shop, and I got thinking about the upstairs windows. Did they have glass in the 'castle era?' (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Can I glass you a question? —Carlo Catuogno
| | | | | (...) Well, Glassmaking was invented 3,300 years ago in Mesopotamia and Syria. Instructions were written down on cuneiform tablets and passed down from generation to generation, so to answer your question they did have glass in the middle ages. Hope (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Can I glass you a question? —Lindsay Frederick Braun
| | | | | (...) Despite the existence of glass in the period, and its use in windows from at least the Roman period forward, it was an imperfect (and very expensive!) science. Glass windows were usually restricted to composite panes and religious glass (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.castle)
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