Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography 1
4. Chapter one. Women and Silk 15
5. Chapter Two. Women Silk Workers from King Arthur’s France to King Roger’s Palermo 37
6. 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) 70
7. Chapter Four. Following Two “Ladies of Carthage” from Tyre to North Africa and Spain to France (Le Roman d’Enéas, Aucassin et Nicolette) 100
8. Chapter Five. Women Mapping a Silk Route from Saint-Denis to Jerusalem and Constantinople (Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne) 137
9. Chapter Six. Silk Between Virgins 156
10. Glossary 185
11. Notes 187
12. Works cited 237
13. Index 255
14. Acknowledgments 263