Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature

E. Jane Burns

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2009

Sea of Silk

A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature

E. Jane Burns

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291254

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

E. Jane Burns is Druscilla French Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture and Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature, both also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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"Burns shifts our focus from questions of the consumption of silk to those of its production and circulation; in so doing, she weaves a gendered history of the role this luxury textile has played in the social and libidinal economy of cultural exchange."—Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter one. Women and Silk Remapping the Silk Routes from China to France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter Two. Women Silk Workers from King Arthur’s France to King Roger’s Palermo (Yvain ou Le Chevalier au lion) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
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) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter Four. Following Two “Ladies of Carthage” from Tyre to North Africa and Spain to France (Le Roman d’Enéas, Aucassin et Nicolette) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Chapter Five. Women Mapping a Silk Route from Saint-Denis to Jerusalem and Constantinople (Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter Six. Silk Between Virgins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Works cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 25 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: July 14, 2014
ISBN: 9780812291254