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THE NEW MIDDLE AGES BONNIE WHEELER, Series Editor The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cul- tures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE: Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays Patronage, and Piety on Medieval European and Heian Japanese edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly Women Writers edited by Barbara Stevenson and The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Cynthia Ho Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics by Gregory B. Stone Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages Presence and Presentation: Women in the by Laurel Amtower Chinese Literati Tradition edited by Sherry J. 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Allan Mitchell McLaughlin with Bonnie Wheeler Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe Medieval English Literature edited by Theresa Earenfi ght by Kathleen E. Kennedy Heloise and the Paraclete: A Twelfth-Century The Post-Historical Middle Ages Quest (forthcoming) edited by Elizabeth Scala and by Mary Martin McLaughlin with Sylvia Federico Bonnie Wheeler This page intentionally left blank WOMEN AND WEALTH IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE Edited by Theresa Earenfi ght WOMEN AND WEALTH IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE Copyright © Theresa Earenfight, 2010. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-1-4039-8432-6 All rights reserved. First published in 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-53987-1 ISBN 978-0-230-10601-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230106017 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Women and wealth in late Medieval Europe / edited by Theresa Earenfight. p. cm. — (The new Middle Ages) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Women in politics—Europe—History. 2. Women in public life— Europe—History. 3. Wealth—Europe—History. I. Earenfight, Theresa, 1954– HQ1236.5.E8W645 2010 305.48(cid:2)96210940902—dc22 2009024120 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: March 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Theresa Earenfight 1 Constant du Hamel: Women, Money, and Power in an Old French Fabliau 13 Daniel M. Murtaugh 2 Take All My Wealth and Let My Body Go 33 M. C. Bodden 3 “Consider, I Beg You, What You Owe Me”: Heloise and the Economics of Relationship 51 Sally Livingston 4 Money Isn’t Everything: Concubinage, Class, and the Rise and Fall of Sibil·la de Fortià, Queen of Aragon (1377–87) 67 Núria Silleras-Fernández 5 Merchant Women and the Administrative Glass Ceiling in Thirteenth-Century Paris 89 Sharon Farmer 6 “Appropriate to Her Sex”? Women’s Participation on the Construction Site in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 109 Shelley E. Roff 7 The Spending Power of a Crusader Queen: Melisende of Jerusalem 135 Helen A. Gaudette 8 Exploring the Limits of Female Largesse: The Power of Female Patrons in Thirteenth-Century Flanders and Hainaut 149 Erin L. Jordan
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