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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 histories that chart the exchange of silk along Asian and Mediterranean trade routes to medieval literary depictions of silk, a strikingly different picture comes into view. In Old French literar

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Author

E. Jane Burns

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812291254

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Romance

Updated

2026-03-25