?Seeing Silk in Sens in the Ninth Century? Valerie L. Garver

An extraordinary collection of eighth- and ninth-century silks survives in the collection of the Episcopal Museum in Sens. Not merely numerous, the silks have varied origins and provide a sense of the wide range of foreign cloth available to those living in the Carolingian Empire. Most survived because of their association with saints? relics which had long been hidden within reliquaries. These...