Sea of silk
Subtitle: a textile geography of women's work in medieval French literature
By: E. Jane Burns.
Series: Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780812241549
Subjects: French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Women silk industry workers in literature; Silk industry in literature; Clothing and dress in literature; Women silk industry workers -- Mediterranean Region -- History; Silk Road -- In literature
Description: viii, 264 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women and silk: remapping the silk routes from China to France; title: Women silk workers from King Arthur's France to King Roger's Palermo (Yvain ou le chevalier au lion); title: Women working silk from Constantinople to Lotharingia (Le dit de l'empereur constant, le roman de la rose ou de Guillaume de Dole); title: Following two "ladies of Carthage" from Tyre to North Africa and Spain to France (Le roman d'enas, Aucassin et Nicolette); title: Women mapping a silk route from Saint-Denis to Jerusalem and Constantinople (Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne); title: Silk between virgins: following a relic from Constantinople to Chartres.