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edocfu_9958352405202883
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1 online resource(272p.) :
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illustrations.
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Electronic reproduction. , 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812291254
Serie:
The Middle Ages Series
Inhalt:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction. Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography --
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Chapter one. Women and Silk --
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Chapter Two. Women Silk Workers from King Arthur’s France to King Roger’s Palermo --
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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) --
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Chapter Four. Following Two "Ladies of Carthage" from Tyre to North Africa and Spain to France (Le Roman d’Enéas, Aucassin et Nicolette) --
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Chapter Five. Women Mapping a Silk Route from Saint-Denis to Jerusalem and Constantinople (Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne) --
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Chapter Six. Silk Between Virgins --
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Glossary --
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Notes --
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Works cited --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.9783/9780812291254
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291254
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