E Jane Burns: 1 book
Sea of Silk
A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But if we shift our focus from economic...
