 | Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women''s Work in Medieval French Literature Subjects: French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Women silk industry workers in literature; Silk industry in literature; Clothing and dress in literature; Silk Road -- In literature; Women silk industry workers -- Mediterranean Region -- History; 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 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. |
