Dhuoda of septimania - works
About Dhuoda's Works:
Dhuoda of Septimania, a woman of uncommon intelligence, wrote Liber Manualis between November 30, 841 and February 2, 843 while secluded in her husband's castle in Uzès, in Southern France. Manualis was intended to be a handbook for her eldest son, William. Both of her children had been taken from her to serve as pawns for their father during the political upheaval of the time. Dhuoda wrote this handbook so that she might influence her sons' moral and spiritual development while she was separated from them..
Current Print Editions of Dhuoda's Works:
Dhuoda and Carol Neel (trans.). Handbook for William : A Carolingian Woman's Counsel for Her Son. Catholic University of America Press,
1999.
Tiebaux, Marcelle. Dhuoda, Handbook for her Warrior Son: Liber Manualis. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1998.
(Note: Latin text with English translation)
Bowers, Myra E. (trans.), 1977, The Liber Manualis of Dhuoda: Advice of a Ninth-Century Mother for Her Son. Catholic University, 1977.
(Note: dissertation)