The power of textiles in the Burgundian Dominions, spinning webs between city and court c. 1363-1477.

By providing an extensive and interdisciplinary treatment of the supernatural within sagas, this volume seeks to explore the literary and folkloric interface between the natural and the supernatural through a study of previously neglected texts, as well as examining genres that are sometimes overlooked, law codes, and learned translations.

This new study sheds important light on the development of female authorship in the sixteenth century, through a close analysis of the female patronage and manuscript production leading up to the Renaissance in late medieval France.