Abstract: (Dhuoda as a 'Frontier Mother': On Margins and Marginality) The article aims to analyze Dhuoda’s Liber manualis from a dual perspective: as a pedagogical document and as a manifestation of a multifaceted crisis—political, familial, and one of authority. Written in the first half of the ninth century, amid the fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire, Dhuoda’s text gives voice to a marginal, feminine perspective that is nevertheless acutely aware of its formative role in a world marked by violence and instability. The concept of the “frontier mother” reflects both the author’s geographical position in Septimania—a border region of the empire—and her existential and symbolic condition: that of a mother separated from her son, deprived of direct political authority, who seeks to exert influence through writing. In an era in which moral education and family loyalty became valuable resources within aristocratic power struggles, Dhuoda formulates an alternative model of authority, grounded in religion, memory, prayer, and discipline. This study explores this pedagogy of marginality as a form of symbolic resistance and proposes an interdisciplinary reading of the Liber manualis.