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Sea of silk : a textile geography of women's work in medieval French literature /
E. Jane Burns argues that literary portraits of medieval heroines who produce and decorate silk cloth or otherwise manipulate items of silk outline a metaphorical geography that includes northern France as an important cultural player within the silk economics of the Mediterranean.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Old French |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Women and silk: remapping the silk routes from China to France
- Women silk workers from King Arthur's France to King Roger's Palermo (Yvain ou le chevalier au lion)
- Women working silk from Constantinople to Lotharingia (Le dit de l'empereur constant, le roman de la rose ou de Guillaume de Dole)
- Following two "ladies of Carthage" from Tyre to North Africa and Spain to France (Le roman d'enas, Aucassin et Nicolette)
- Women mapping a silk route from Saint-Denis to Jerusalem and Constantinople (Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne)
- Silk between virgins: following a relic from Constantinople to Chartres.