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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Burns, E. Jane, 1948- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Old French
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Collection:Middle Ages series.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.