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Re: Can I glass you a question?
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:40:27 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Carlo Catuogno writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Adam Murtha writes:
> > 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?'
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> 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.
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> Hope That Helps
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 (because that's the only group who
could pay for them, save some kings!), and remained so until the 16th
century. You really don't see large plate glass in quantity until
the 1700s; it spreads mostly with the rise of merchant/middle classes
(thus why the really good old plate glass is in England, the Netherlands,
and northern France).
So yes, there was glass; no, it probably wasn't that common, but if any
personal home would have it, I'd bet the blacksmith could. :)
best
LFB
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.castle)
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