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

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1st ed. 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.