Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Constant du Hamel: Women, Money, and Power in an Old French Fabliau ....Pages 13-32
Take All My Wealth and Let My Body Go....Pages 33-49
“Consider, I Beg You, What You Owe Me”: Heloise and the Economics of Relationship....Pages 51-65
Money isn’t Everything: Concubinage, Class, and the Rise and Fall of Sibil·la de Forti`, Queen of Aragon (1377–87)....Pages 67-88
Merchant Women and the Administrative Glass Ceiling in Thirteenth-Century Paris....Pages 89-108
“Appropriate to Her Sex”? Women’s Participation on the Construction Site in Medieval and Early Modern Europe....Pages 109-134
The Spending Power of a Crusader Queen: Melisende of Jerusalem....Pages 135-148
Exploring the Limits of Female Largesse: The Power of Female Patrons in Thirteenth-Century Flanders and Hainaut....Pages 149-169
Money, Books, and Prayers: Anchoresses and Exchange in Thirteenth-Century England....Pages 171-185
Women and Property Conflicts in Late Medieval England....Pages 187-207
Private Properties, Seigniorial Tributes, and Jurisdictional Rents: The Income of the Queens of Portugal in the Late Middle Ages....Pages 209-228
Royal Finances in the Reign of María of Castile, Queen-Lieutenant of the Crown of Aragon, 1432–53....Pages 229-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-285