Women and aristocratic culture in the Carolingian world - Garver, Valerie L., (Valerie Louise) (Cornell University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : women and Carolingian society -- Beauty : appearance and adornment -- Family : bonds and memory -- Prudence : instruction and moral exemplarity -- Wealth : hospitality and domestic management -- Textile work -- Conclusion : the lifecycle of aristocratic women
"Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and religious women, despite their legal and social constrictions, played integral roles in Carolingian society."--BOOK JACKET.