Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World

by Valerie L. Garver

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477883
• ISBN13: 9780801477881
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher