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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.
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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 |
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 Pelerinage de Charlemagne)
- Silk between virgins: following a relic from Constantinople to Chartres.