Religious Women in Early Carolingian FranciaReligious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of Mainz and his beloved,abbess Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim. This is the first study of these Anglo Saxon missionaries to Germany to delve into the details of