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.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés Old French |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2009.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations, maps |
ISBN: | 9780812291254 |