Screen LibrarySea 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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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2009] ©2009 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The middle ages series
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812291254 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812291254.jpg |
| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 25 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812291254 |
| Index Number: | PQ155 |
| CLC: | I565.063 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography -- Chapter one. Women and Silk -- Chapter Two. Women Silk Workers from King Arthur s France to King Roger s Palermo -- Chapter Three. Women Working Silk from Constantinople to Lotharingia (Le Dit de l Empereur Constant, Le Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole) -- Chapter Four. Following Two "Ladies of Carthage" from Tyre to North Africa and Spain to France (Le Roman d En as, Aucassin et Nicolette) -- Chapter Five. Women Mapping a Silk Route from Saint-Denis to Jerusalem and Constantinople (Le P lerinage de Charlemagne) -- Chapter Six. Silk Between Virgins -- Glossary -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |