Sea of silk: a textile geography of women's work in medieval french literature
Auteur :
Burns, E. Jane
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9780812241549
Date de publication :
11 mai 2009
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.