ABSTRACT
Frankish Working Women (6th c.) This episode from a sixth-century chronicle describes the fate of a woman who became involved in a plot against the queen mother and the king's wife. As nurse to the royal family, Septimina held a position of prestige and responsibility; her subsequent demotion was part of her punishment. Source: Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks, tr. O. M. Dalton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1927). Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.
