Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Constant du Hamel : Women, Money, and Power in an Old French Fabliau

Chapter 3 Take All My Wealth and Let My Body Go

Chapter 4 “Consider, I Beg You, What You Owe Me”: Heloise and the Economics of Relationship

Chapter 5 Money isn’t Everything: Concubinage, Class, and the Rise and Fall of Sibil·la de Fortià, Queen of Aragon (1377–87)

Chapter 6 Merchant Women and the Administrative Glass Ceiling in Thirteenth-Century Paris

Chapter 7 “Appropriate to Her Sex”? Women’s Participation on the Construction Site in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Chapter 8 The Spending Power of a Crusader Queen: Melisende of Jerusalem

Chapter 9 Exploring the Limits of Female Largesse: The Power of Female Patrons in Thirteenth-Century Flanders and Hainaut

Chapter 10 Money, Books, and Prayers: Anchoresses and Exchange in Thirteenth-Century England

Chapter 12 Private Properties, Seigniorial Tributes, and Jurisdictional Rents: The Income of the Queens of Portugal in the Late Middle Ages

Chapter 13 Royal Finances in the Reign of María of Castile, Queen-Lieutenant of the Crown of Aragon, 1432–53