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Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Constant du Hamel: Women, Money, and Power in an Old French Fabliau
- 2 Take All My Wealth and Let My Body Go
- 3 "Consider, I Beg You, What You Owe Me": Heloise and the Economics of Relationship
- 4 Money Isn't Everything: Concubinage, Class, and the Rise and Fall of Sibil·la de Fortià, Queen of Aragon (1377–87)
- 5 Merchant Women and the Administrative Glass Ceiling in Thirteenth-Century Paris
- 6 "Appropriate to Her Sex"? Women's Participation on the Construction Site in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- 7 The Spending Power of a Crusader Queen: Melisende of Jerusalem
- 8 Exploring the Limits of Female Largesse: The Power of Female Patrons in Thirteenth-Century Flanders and Hainaut
- 9 Money, Books, and Prayers: Anchoresses and Exchange in Thirteenth-Century England
- 10 Women and Property Conflicts in Late Medieval England
- 11 Private Properties, Seigniorial Tributes, and Jurisdictional Rents: The Income of the Queens of Portugal in the Late Middle Ages
- 12 Royal Finances in the Reign of María of Castile, Queen-Lieutenant of the Crown of Aragon, 1432–53
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index