Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian WorldDespite 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