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Dhuoda never asserts exclusive patriarchal allegiance is a reality but only proposes an ideal. Her urgency that William obey first his father, then his earthly lord, and then the priesthood grows from the violence of her historical circumstances. Dhuoda's essay on the family and the nobility is thus normative, not descriptive. Although the lives of Frankish nobles were frequently disrupted, the years in which Dhuoda wrote were, for people like herself, exceptional in their destructiveness. Everything that William's mother wrote to her son is colored by this circumstance." page xxii-xxiii
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