Women and Money in Medieval Europe (The New Middle Ages)

"The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe reexamine the vexing issues 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, focusing especially on 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"--P. [4] of cover.