1: Before the invention of glassblowing / Veronica Tatton-Brown and Carol Andrews
The first glassmakers 2500-1200 BC
Western Asia and the Mediterranean c. 900-300 BC
Hellenistic and non-blown Roman glass c. 325 BC - AD 400
2: The Roman empire / Veronica Tatton-Brown
Early blown glass 1st century AD
The Roman achievement AD 100-400
3: Early medieval Europe AD 400-1066 / Veronica Tatton-Brown
4: The Islamic lands and China / Ralph Finder-Wilson
Early Islamic glass 8th-11th centuries
Islamic glass 12th-15th centuries
Later Islamic glass 16th-19th centuries
5: Europe from the Middle Ages to the industrial revolution / Hugh Tait
Byzantium and medieval Europe 10th-15th centuries
Venice and renaissance Europe 15th-17th centuries
North of the alps 17th-18th centuries
6: Europe and America 1800-1940 / Paul Hollister
Some special techniques and achievements
Techniques of glassmaking and decoration / William Gudenrath.
