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Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe

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  1. Theresa Earenfight
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Theresa Earenfight
    Pages 1-12

  3. Constant du Hamel: Women, Money, and Power in an Old French Fabliau

    • Daniel M. Murtaugh
    Pages 13-32

  4. Take All My Wealth and Let My Body Go

    • M. C. Bodden
    Pages 33-49

  5. “Consider, I Beg You, What You Owe Me”: Heloise and the Economics of Relationship

    • Sally Livingston
    Pages 51-65

  6. Money isn’t Everything: Concubinage, Class, and the Rise and Fall of Sibil·la de Fortià, Queen of Aragon (1377–87)

    • Núria Silleras-Fernández
    Pages 67-88

  7. Merchant Women and the Administrative Glass Ceiling in Thirteenth-Century Paris

    • Sharon Farmer
    Pages 89-108

  8. “Appropriate to Her Sex”? Women’s Participation on the Construction Site in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    • Shelley E. Roff
    Pages 109-134

  9. The Spending Power of a Crusader Queen: Melisende of Jerusalem

    • Helen A. Gaudette
    Pages 135-148

  10. Exploring the Limits of Female Largesse: The Power of Female Patrons in Thirteenth-Century Flanders and Hainaut

    • Erin L. Jordan
    Pages 149-169

  11. Money, Books, and Prayers: Anchoresses and Exchange in Thirteenth-Century England

    • Lara Farina
    Pages 171-185

  12. Women and Property Conflicts in Late Medieval England

    • Anna Dronzek
    Pages 187-207

  13. Private Properties, Seigniorial Tributes, and Jurisdictional Rents: The Income of the Queens of Portugal in the Late Middle Ages

    • Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Manuela Santos Silva
    Pages 209-228

  14. Royal Finances in the Reign of María of Castile, Queen-Lieutenant of the Crown of Aragon, 1432–53

    • Theresa Earenfight
    Pages 229-244

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 245-285
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About this book

The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources. The contributors examine how money and changing attitudes toward wealth affected power relations between women and men of all ranks, especially the patriarchal social forces that constrained the range of women s economic choices. Employing theories on gender, culture, and power, this volume reveals wealth as both the motive force in gender relations and a precise indicator of other, more subtle, forms of power and influence mediated by gender.

About the authors

THERESA MARIE EARENFIGHT is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Medieval Studies Program, Seattle University, USA.

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