Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe

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

• Introduction; T.Earenfight Take All My Wealth and Let My Body Go; M.C.Bodden Women and Money in Old French Fabliau; D.M.Murtaugh Exploring the Limits of Female Largesse: The Power of Female Patrons in Thirteenth-Century Flanders; E.Jordan   The Spending Power of a Crusader Queen: Melisende of Jerusalem; H.Gaudette Women in Property Conflicts in Late Medieval England; A.Dronzek Wealth and Power: Politics of Retribution in the Reign of Sibil·la de Fortià, Queen of Aragon (1377-1387);  N.Silleras-Fernández Private Properties, Seigniorial Tributes and Jurisdictional Rents: The Income of the Queens of Portugal in the Middle Ages; A.M.S.A.Rodrigues  & M.S.Silva The Queen's Treasury in the Medieval Crown of Aragon; T.Earenfight Money, Books, and Prayers: Anchoresses and Exchange in Thirteenth-Century England; F.Farina Appropriate to Her Sex?: Women's Participation on the Construction Site in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe;  S.Roff