Sea Of Silk
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Sea Of Silk
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Author : E. Jane Burns
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Sea Of Silk written by E. Jane Burns and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 literary texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, emphasis falls on production rather than trade and on female protagonists who make, decorate, and handle silk. Sea of Silk maps a textile geography of silk work done by these fictional women. Situated in northern France and across the medieval Mediterranean, from Saint-Denis to Constantinople, from North Africa to Muslim Spain, and even from the fantasy realm of Arthurian romance to the historical silkworks of the Norman kings in Palermo, these medieval heroines provide important glimpses of distant economic and cultural geographies. E. Jane Burns argues, in brief, that literary portraits of medieval heroines who produce and decorate silk cloth or otherwise manipulate items of silk outline a metaphorical geography that includes France as an important cultural player in the silk economics of the Mediterranean. Within this literary sea of silk, female protagonists who "work" silk in a variety of ways often deploy it successfully as a social and cultural currency that enables them to traverse religious and political barriers while also crossing lines of gender and class.
Singapore And The Silk Road Of The Sea 1300 1800
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Author : John N. Miksic
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2013-09-30
Singapore And The Silk Road Of The Sea 1300 1800 written by John N. Miksic and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with History categories.
Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritime Silk Road. This book synthesizes 25 years of archaeological research to reconstruct the 14th-century port of Singapore in greater detail than is possible for any other early Southeast Asian city. The picture that emerges is of a port where people processed raw materials, used money, and had specialized occupations. Within its defensive wall, the city was well organized and prosperous, with a cosmopolitan population that included residents from China, other parts of Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. Fully illustrated, with more than 300 maps and colour photos, Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea presents Singapore's history in the context of Asia's long-distance maritime trade in the years between 1300 and 1800: it amounts to a dramatic new understanding of Singapore's pre-colonial past.
Exploration By Sea
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Author : Struan Reid
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 2003-04-01
Exploration By Sea written by Struan Reid and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-01 with categories.
"East meets West explores how and why trade between eastern and western cultures took place, and its influences.
Exploration By Sea
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Author : Struan Reid
language : en
Publisher: Formac
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Exploration By Sea written by Struan Reid and has been published by Formac this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with History categories.
The Spice Routes stretched for over 15 000 kilometres around Asia. They led form China's seas, across the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean, up to the Red Sea or the Perisan Gulf and overland to the Mediterranean. The ships and boats that sailed them faced violent storms, treacherous reefs and the possibility of pirate attack, not to mention long absences from home and family. But from before records began, people have been tempted to travel these routes--to look for trade or treasure or just to satisfy their curiosity. Splendidly illustrated with dozens of historical visuals, Exploration by Sea tells of the adventures these travellers had, the finds and the contacts they made exploring the Spice Route.
Sri Lanka And The Silk Road Of The Sea
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Author : Senake Bandaranayake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Sri Lanka And The Silk Road Of The Sea written by Senake Bandaranayake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Sri Lanka categories.
The Silk And Spices Routes
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Author : Struan Reid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Silk And Spices Routes written by Struan Reid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Asia categories.
The Sea Silk Shawl
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Author : Brooks Mencher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-20
The Sea Silk Shawl written by Brooks Mencher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-20 with categories.
Nearly twenty years ago, a drug drop gone wrong claimed the lives of the Point Dolores lighthouse keeper, his eight-year-old daughter Anastasia, and a much-loved local sheriff's deputy. The triple murder still haunts the isolated Northern California town, and the arrival of Ruth M, the FBI textile forensics consultant known within the department as the Yarn Woman, threatens to dredge up the past.On the first night that Ruth spends at the lighthouse, which is now a visitor lodge, she wakes to find a young girl at her bedside. The seed of a deep friendship is planted, but when Ruth attends a local knitting club meeting that night, she learns who the strange child really is. Or was. Ana's body was never found, and the girl's true fate remains a mystery, like the drug-related shootout itself.Ruth unearths the strange history of Point Dolores - the wreck of an opium clipper a century and a half ago, and the impossible presence in the waters off Point Dolores of "sea silk." Incredibly rare and valuable, the golden-colored fiber comes only from the byssus of the large Mediterranean mussel, Pinna nobilis. This golden thread was woven by the ancient Chinese into what they called "cloth from West of the Sea," and was sought by Jason and his Argonauts in the form of the golden fleece. It was coveted my Arabian princes a thousand years ago. In both myth and modern times, though, it maintains an uncanny relationship to those who have died - and the troubled spirits who wander the earth in the gray world between life and death.
Maritime Silk Road
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Author : Qingxin Li
language : en
Publisher: 五洲传播出版社
Release Date : 2006
Maritime Silk Road written by Qingxin Li and has been published by 五洲传播出版社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with China categories.
Aspects Of The Maritime Silk Road
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Author : Ralph Kauz
language : en
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release Date : 2010
Aspects Of The Maritime Silk Road written by Ralph Kauz and has been published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Asia categories.
In the recent years, trade, cultural exchange and transfer of knowledge in the Indian Ocean have come increasingly into the scope of various scholarly disciplines. The previous perception that the exploitation of this sea did only start with the European colonial expansion at the end of the 15th century had to be abandoned: The Europeans absorbed the long existing structures rather than creating new ones. This concept of the Indian Ocean as a coherent space of transfer is also adopted in this volume. Some of the articles were presented at a conference held in Vienna, while the others were supplied independently. The contributions are arranged around the two "poles", represented by the western and the eastern part of the Indian Ocean, especially Iran and China, but also other cultures and the manifold relations with the land-based Silk Road are discussed. The time frame ranges from the 14th to the 17th century.
Treasures From The Sea
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Author : Hedvig Landenius Enegren
language : en
Publisher: Ancient Textiles
Release Date : 2017
Treasures From The Sea written by Hedvig Landenius Enegren and has been published by Ancient Textiles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
Presents new research on the extraction and physical and chemical properties of, and the use and social significance of mollusc-extracted purple dyes and sea silk in textiles in Mediterranean prehistory