| Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World Subjects: Women -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages 500–1500; Upper class women -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Carolingians; Social history -- Medieval 500–1500; Civilization Medieval; 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. Valerie L. Garver is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. |