Un soț şi un tată de neuitat. Liber Manualis
A Husband and a Father Never Forgotten. Liber Manualis

Summary/Abstract: Identified by the author himself, Dhuoda, with a mirror (speculum), Liber Manualis is a book of advice addressed to the author's eldest son, Wilhelm. Separated from him, after being sent as a hostage to the court of Charles the Bald, Dhuoda, wife of the Duke of Septimania, lived alone in Uzes, in the south of France. During this period, she wrote the textbook she sent to Wilhelm in 843. Liber Manualis transcends the pattern of advice books, the mode of exposition being one of a meditative nature; as a result, we can talk about two directions in the analysis of the paper: one that aims at the conventional aspect and another that follows the introspective, personal aspect, difficult to detect from the material subject to formal constraints. These two aspects represent the two sides of the mirror in which we set out to capture the "reflection", not of the Dhuoda, not of its recipient, but of the barely outlined one, of Bernard, unforgettable husband and father.

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