Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 The Most Perfect Knight’s Countess: Isabella de Clare, Her Daughters, and Women’s Exercise of Power and Influence, 1190–ca. 1250

Chapter 4 Beyond Good Queen Anne: Anne of Bohemia, Patronage, and Politics

Chapter 5 Emma of Ivry, c. 1008–1080

Chapter 6 From Mothers to Daughters: Literary Patronage as Political Work in Ponthieu

Chapter 7 Pirate, Traitor, Wife: Jeanne of Belleville and the Categories of Fourteenth-Century French Noblewomen

Chapter 8 Just Another Day in the Neighborhood: Collective Female Donation Practices at the Hospital of Saint John in Brussels

Chapter 9 A “Necessary Companion”: The Salian Consort’s Expected Role in Governance

Chapter 10 Power in Pursuit of Religion: The Penitent Sisters of Speyer and Their Choice of Affiliation

Chapter 11 Women of Antioch: Political Culture and Powerful Women in the Latin East

Chapter 12 Unexceptional Women: Power, Authority, and Queenship in Early Portugal

Chapter 13 A Lifetime of Power: Beyond Binaries of Gender