Table of Contents: Sea of silk :

Main Author:	Burns, E. Jane, 1948- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Series:	Middle Ages Series
Subjects:	French literature > History and criticism. > To 1500 Women silk industry workers in literature. Silk industry in literature. Clothing and dress in literature. Women silk industry workers > History. > Mediterranean Region Silk Road > In literature.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=11045933

Table of Contents:

Women and silk: remapping the silk routes from China to France
Women silk workers from King Arthur's France to King Roger's Palermo (Yvain ou le chevalier au lion)
Women working silk from Constantinople to Lotharingia (Le dit de l'empereur constant, le roman de la rose ou de Guillaume de Dole)
Following two "ladies of Carthage" from Tyre to North Africa and Spain to France (Le roman d'enas, Aucassin et Nicolette)
Women mapping a silk route from Saint-Denis to Jerusalem and Constantinople (Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne)
Silk between virgins: following a relic from Constantinople to Chartres.