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Women's Clothing In The Carolingian World

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Implications of Women’s Clothing in the Carolingian World Through study of the Carolingian World, the people of the time’s affinity for one’s status and ways of presenting said status, becomes quite apparent. The Carolingian people not only seem to put great importance on social ranking, but also place emphasis on the different techniques of showing one’s status and processes of rising in the social hierarchy. However, by viewing texts written during said time, the lack of a certain group of people, women, is unnerving and raises the question of the importance of women in establishing a families status and importance. As Valerie L. Garver relates in her text “Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World”, women and the culture
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