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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Burns, E. Jane, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Old French
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 Pelerinage de Charlemagne)
  • Silk between virgins: following a relic from Constantinople to Chartres.