Acquiring, flaunting and destroying silk in late Anglo-Saxon England
Robin Fleming
This paper argues that silk was ubiquitous in England the late Anglo‐Saxon period. It also contends when examined context of its use, it becomes clear deployment symbolic. People means moved heaven and earth to get because allowed them appropriate associated meanings for themselves. So, after establishing silk's ubiquity uses, teases out ideological underpinnings. Finally, investigates economics silk. In end strives prove a whole spectrum people acquired, displayed, sometimes even destroyed silk, made others see as they wished be seen.
Early Medieval Europe