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.
Sea of silk : a textile geography of women's work in medieval French literature by E. Jane Burns. ISBN 9780812241549. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.