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: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Old French |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812291254 0812291255 |