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What Did Medieval and Early Modern Sources Actu...
A historical examination of bloodstone, heliotrope, and lapis sanguinalis in classical, medieval, and early modern sources, focusing on how the name was used for different materials and meanings.
What Did Medieval and Early Modern Sources Actu...
A historical examination of bloodstone, heliotrope, and lapis sanguinalis in classical, medieval, and early modern sources, focusing on how the name was used for different materials and meanings.
When Garnet Was a Court Stone: Bohemian Red, Fa...
How did Bohemian garnet move from central European court jewelry to affordable fashion? Explore the material history, terminology, trade, and changing social meaning of this regional red stone.
When Garnet Was a Court Stone: Bohemian Red, Fa...
How did Bohemian garnet move from central European court jewelry to affordable fashion? Explore the material history, terminology, trade, and changing social meaning of this regional red stone.
The Carbuncle as Fiscal Instrument: How A Gemst...
How the historical term carbuncle functioned as a fiscal and political category for taxing red gemstones, from medieval mining laws to colonial reinvention.
The Carbuncle as Fiscal Instrument: How A Gemst...
How the historical term carbuncle functioned as a fiscal and political category for taxing red gemstones, from medieval mining laws to colonial reinvention.
Lepidolite Before the Crystal Shop: The Naming ...
Lepidolite was named by mineralogists, mined as lithium ore, and only later became a crystal-shop stone. Explore how a modern gemstone identity was invented.
Lepidolite Before the Crystal Shop: The Naming ...
Lepidolite was named by mineralogists, mined as lithium ore, and only later became a crystal-shop stone. Explore how a modern gemstone identity was invented.
Rhodolite Garnet and the Politics of a Name: Ho...
How rhodolite garnet acquired its classical name in the nineteenth century, why it is not a mineral species, and what its naming reveals about authority and value in the imperial...
Rhodolite Garnet and the Politics of a Name: Ho...
How rhodolite garnet acquired its classical name in the nineteenth century, why it is not a mineral species, and what its naming reveals about authority and value in the imperial...
The Reliquary Problem: Chrysoberyl and the Limi...
How museum objects and medieval inventories complicate the identification of chrysoberyl in religious contexts, where historical terms like chrysolite and beryl did not match modern mineralogy.
The Reliquary Problem: Chrysoberyl and the Limi...
How museum objects and medieval inventories complicate the identification of chrysoberyl in religious contexts, where historical terms like chrysolite and beryl did not match modern mineralogy.