Women and wealth in late medieval Europe / edited by Theresa Earenfight.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Earenfight, Theresa, 1954-

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--Europe--History.

Women.

Women in public life--Europe--History.

Women in public life.

Wealth--Europe--History.

Wealth.

History.

Women--Political activity.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 285 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Contents:

Constant du Hamel : women, money, and power in an Old French Fabliau / Daniel M. Murtaugh

Take all my wealth and let my body go / M.C. Bodden

"Consider, I beg you, what you owe me" : Heloise and the economics of relationship / Sally Livingston

Money isn't everything : concubinage, class, and the rise and fall of Sibil·la de Fortià, Queen of Aragon (1377-87) / Núria Silleras-Fernández

Merchant women and the administrative glass ceiling in thirteenth-century Paris / Sharon Farmer

"Appropriate to her sex"? Women's participation on the construction site in medieval and early modern Europe / Shelley E. Roff

The spending power of a crusader queen : Melisende of Jerusalem / Helen A. Gaudette

Exploring the limits of female largesse : the power of female patrons in thirteenth-century Flanders and Hainaut / Erin L. Jordan

Money, books, and prayers : anchoresses and exchange in thirteenth-century England / Lara Farina

Women and property conflicts in late medieval England / Anna Dronzek

Private properties, seigniorial tributes, and jurisdictional rents : the income of the queens of Portugal in the late Middle Ages / Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues and Manuela Santos Silva

Royal finances in the reign of María of Castile, queen-lieutenant of the crown of Aragon, 1432-53 / Theresa Earenfight.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

1403984328

9781403984326

OCLC:

417441555

Publisher Number:

99946495162