Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature
by:
E. Jane Burns (author)
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.
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: ebook
ISBN:
9780812241549 (0812241541)
ASIN: 9780812241549
Publish date: 13-04-2009
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
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