WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY last updated September 2003
Items marked with a * are part of my personal collection and can be made available at local SCA events (mostly within central Atlantia).

A. GLASS HISTORY IN GENERAL

Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections. Toledo Museum of Art, 1969.

*Biek, Leo and Justine Bayley. "Glass and other vitreous materials." World Archaeology, 11(1), June 1979, 1-25.

Charleston, R. J. English Glass and the Glass Used in England, circa 400-1940. London & Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1984.

*Davidson, Gladys R. "A medieval glass-factory at Corinth." American Journal of Archaeology. 44(3), July-Sept. 1940, 297-324.

*De Raedt, K. Janssens, and J. Veeckman. "Compositional distinctions between 16th century 'facon-de-Venise' and Venetian glass vessels excavated in Antwerp, Belgium." Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 14, 1999, 493-498.

Engle, Anita. "From Myth to Reality: An Intelligent Woman's Guide to Glass History." Readings in Glass History, no. 22. Jerusalem: Phoenix Publications, 1990.

Fleming, Stuart James. Roman Glass: Reflections of Everyday Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1997.

Godfrey, Eleanor Smith. The Development of English Glassmaking, 1560-1640. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

*Harrington, J. C. Glassmaking at Jamestown: America's First Industry. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1952.

Henderson, J. "The raw materials of early glass production." Oxford Journal of Archaeology 4(3): 267-92.

*Hettes, Karel. Old Venetian Glass. London: Spring Books, 1960.

*Hills, Paul. Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass, 1250-1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

*Historic Glass from Collections in Northwest England. Merseyside County Museums, 1979.

Kenyon, G.H. The Glass Industry of the Weald. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1967.

Kurinsky, Samuel. The Glassmakers: An Odyssey of the Jews: The First 3,000 Years. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1991.

*Mariarcher, Giovanni. Glass from Antiquity to the Renaissance. London: Hamlin, 1970.

McCray, W. Patrick. Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice: The Fragile Craft. Brookfield, Vt: Ashgate, 1999. McCray, W. Patrick, ed. The Prehistory and History of Glassmaking Technology. Westerville, Ohio: The American Ceramic Society, 1998.

*Neri, Antonio. The Art of Glass: Wherein are shown the wayes to make and colour glass, pastes, enamels, lakes and other curiosities. Trans. Christopher Merret. London: Printed by A.W. for Octavian Pulleyn, 1662.

Rogers, Frances and Alice Beard. 5,000 Years of Glass. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, Co., 1937.

Scoville, Warren C. Capitalism and French Glassmaking, 1640-1789. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950.

Snow-Smith, Joan. "Venetian Glass and Renaissance Self-Fashioning" in Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art, eds. Francis Ames-Lewis and Mary Rogers. Aldershot, Hants, Eng: Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998.

Stern, E.M. and Birgit Schlick-Nolte. Early Glass of the Ancient World 1600 BC-AD 50. Ostfildern, Germany: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1994.

*Theophilus. On Divers Arts. New York: Dover Press, 1979.

*Whitehouse, David. Glass of the Roman Empire. Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 1988.

B. GLASS BEADS

*Allen, Jamey D. Magical Ancient Beads (from the collection of Ulrich J. Beck). With contributions by Sumarah Adhyatman, Maud Spaer, Anne Richter, Robert K. Liu and Ulrich H. Beck. Photographs by Christopher Leggett. Singapore: Times Editions, 1998.

*Armstrong, E.C.R. "Two Irish finds of glass beads of the Viking period." Man, Vol. 21 (May, 1921), 71-73.

*Boon, George C. and Maria Dekowna. "Gold-in-glass beads from the ancient world." Britannia, 8, 1977, 193-207.

*Callmer, Johann. "Scandinavian Beads, ca. AD 700-1100," in Ornaments from the Past: Bead Studies After Beck. Ian C. Glover, Helen Hughes Brock and Julian Henderson, eds. London: The Bead Study Trust, 2003, 38-46.

Callmer, Johann. Trade Beads and the Bead Trade in Scandinavia, ca. 800-1000 AD. Lund: 1977.

*Dubin, Lois S. The History of Beads: 30,000 BC to the Present. NY: HN Abrams, 1987.

*Eisen, Gustavus A. "Lotus and Melon beads." American Journal of Archaeology, 34 (1), Jan-March 1930, 20-43.

Engle, Anita "The Ubiquitous Trade Bead." Readings in Glass History, no. 23. Jerusalem: Phoenix Publications, [date?].

Francis, Peter. The Story of Venetian Beads. Lake Placid, NY: Lapis Route Books: US Distributor Cornerless Cube, c. 1979.

*Glover, Ian C., Helen Hughes Brock and Julian Henderson, eds. Ornaments from the Past: Bead Studies After Beck. London: The Bead Study Trust, 2003.

Guido, Margaret. The Glass Beads of Anglo-Saxon England, c. AD 400-700: A Preliminary Visual Classification of the More Definitive and Diagnostic Types. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press for the Society of Antiquarians of London, 1999.

Guido, Margaret. The Glass Beads of the Prehistoric and Roman Periods in Britain and Ireland. London: Society of Antiquaries of London:
Distributed by Thames and Hudson, 1978.

*Jargstorf, Sibylle. Glass Beads from Europe. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1995.

Kidd, Kenneth E. Glass Bead-making from the Middle Ages to the Early 19th Century. Ottowa: National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, 1979.

Lundstrom, A. "Beadmaking in Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages," in Antikvarisk Arkiv 61 (Early Medieval Series 9), Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikviets Akademien, Stockholm: 1976.

Raferty, Barry. "Some late La Tene glass beads from Ireland." Journal of the Royal Society of Archaeology Ireland, vol.. 102 (1972), 14-18.

*Robinson, Chris. "Size does not matter: The nature of Celtic bead-making sites," in Ornaments from the Past: Bead Studies After Beck. Ian C. Glover,
Helen Hughes Brock and Julian Henderson, eds. London: The Bead Study Trust, 2003, 79-91.

Ruano Ruiz, Encarnacion. Las cuentas de vidrio preromanas del Museo Arqueologico de Ibiza y Formentera. Eivissa: Museo Arqueologico de Ibiza, 1996.

Smith, Marvin T. and Mary Elizabeth Good. Early Sixteenth Century Glass Beads in the Spanish Colonial Trade. Greenwood, Miss: Cottonlandia Museum Publications, 1982.

*Sode, Torbe. "Viking Age glass beads from Ribe, Denmark, in the light of ethnographic research," in Ornaments from the Past: Bead Studies After Beck.
Ian C. Glover, Helen Hughes Brock and Julian Henderson, eds. London: The Bead Study Trust, 2003, 47-58.

*Spaer, Maud. "Gold-glass beads: A review of the evidence." Beads: The Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers. 5, 1993, 9-25.

*Van der Sleen, W. G. N. "A Bead Factory in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century." Man, 63, Nov. 1963, 172-174.

Van der Sleen, W. G. N. A Handbook on Beads. Liege: L'Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre : 1973.