Presented through 20 case studies covering Europe and the Near East, Neighbours and Successors of Rome investigates development in the production of glass and the mechanisms of the wider glass economy as part of a wider material culture in Europe and the Near East around the later first millennium AD. Though highlighting and solidifying chronology, patterns of distribution, and typology, the primary aims of the collection are to present a new methodology that emphasises regional workshops, scientific data, and the wider trade culture.By twinning a critique of archaeometric methods with the latest archaeological research, the contributors present a foundation for glass research, seen through the lens of consumption demands and geographical necessity, that analyses production centres and traditional typological knowledge. In so doing the they bridge an important divide by demonstrating the co-habitability of diverse approaches and disciplines, linking, for example, the production of Campanulate bowls from Gallaecia with the burgeoning international late antique style. Equally, the particular details of those pieces allow us to identify a regional style as well as local production. As such this compilation provides a highly valuable resource for archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians.Table of ContentsContents:AcknowledgmentsGlass from the later first millennium AD: current state of researchDaniel Keller, Jennifer Price and Caroline JacksonThe last Roman glass in Britain: recycling at the periphery of the empireCaroline Jackson and Harriet FosterOpaque yellow glass production in the early medieval period: new evidenceJames R. N. Peake and Ian C. FreestoneThe vessel glass assemblage from Anglo-Saxon occupation at West Heslerton, North YorkshireRose BroadleyGlassworking at Whitby Abbey and Kirkdale Minster in North YorkshireSarah Paynter, Sarah Jennings and Jennifer PriceGlass workshops in northern Gaul and the Rhineland in the first millennium AD as hints of a changing land use – including some results of the chemical analyses of glass from MayenMartin Grünewald and Sonngard HartmannCampanulate bowls from Gallaecia: evidence for regional glass production in late antiquityMário da CruzThe Wilshere Collection of late Roman gold-glass at the Ashmolean Museum, University of OxfordSusan WalkerThe “proto-history” of Venetian glassmakingDavid WhitehouseLate Roman glass from South Pannonia and the problem of its originMia LeljakGlass supply and consumption in the late Roman and early Byzantine site Dichin, northern BulgariaThilo Rehren and Anastasia Cholakova An early Christian glass workshop at 45, Vasileos Irakleiou Street in the centre of ThessalonikiAnastassios Ch. AntonarasGlass tesserae from Hagios Polyeuktos, Constantinople: their early Byzantine affiliationsNadine Schibille and Judith McKenzieSuccessors of Rome? Byzantine Glass MosaicsLiz JamesGlass from the Byzantine Palace at Ephesus in TurkeySylvia FünfschillingLate Roman and early Byzantine glass from Heliopolis/BaalbekHanna Hamel and Susanne GreiffChanges in glass supply in southern Jordan in the later first millennium ADSusanne Greiff and Daniel KellerEgyptian glass abroad: HIMT glass and its marketsMarie-Dominique NennaContinuity and change in Byzantine and early Islamic glass from Syene/Aswan and Elephantine, EgyptDaniel KellerSasanian glass: an overviewSt John Simpson