Dhuoda (also known as Dodana) is the only known female Carolingian poet and one of the few lay poets whose work has survived from the period. Her place of birth is not known, but her name suggests a northern Frankish connection. She wrote her Liber...

By Marie Anne Mayeski. Scranton: University of Scranton, 1995. Pp. xii + 177. $25. There is no known precedent for this fascinating study of Dhuoda's Liber Manualis, written in Latin by a Carolingian aristocrat for the practical and religious formation of her...