Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900 A.D., by S.F. Wemple
FAIN: RP-*0786-81
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205)
Malcolm Call (Project Director: November 1980 to October 1990)
To support publication of a seminal monograph on the role of women in the Frankish kingdom, focusing on the forces at work in expanding and limiting women's sphere of activity and influence in the medieval aristocracy.