Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. is professor of medieval history at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence, Death and Property in Siena, 1205-1800: Strategies for the Afterlife, and The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy, the last two available from Johns Hopkins.

Together these essays from this distinguished Renaissance historian will challenge and inform students and scholars. They represent social history at its finest, posing proper questions and marshaling substantial evidence to support all conclusions. -- Michael Galgano History

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The Social History of Women in RenaissanceChapter 2. Women in the Streets, Women in the Courts, in Early Renassance FlorenceChapter 3. Last Wills: Family, Women, and the Black Death in Central ItalyChapter 4. Women and the Counter Reformation in Siena: Authority and Property in the FamilyChapter 5. Nuns and Dowry Funds: Women's Choices in the RenaissanceChapter 6. Sex and Violence on the Periphery: The Territorial State in Early Renaissance FlorenceChapter 7. Prosperity in the Countryside: The Price Women PaidNotesBibliographyIndex

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. is professor of medieval history at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence, Death and Property in Siena, 1205-1800: Strategies for the Afterlife, and The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy, the last two available from Johns Hopkins.

Together these essays from this distinguished Renaissance historian will challenge and inform students and scholars. They represent social history at its finest, posing proper questions and marshaling substantial evidence to support all conclusions. -- Michael Galgano History

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The Social History of Women in RenaissanceChapter 2. Women in the Streets, Women in the Courts, in Early Renassance FlorenceChapter 3. Last Wills: Family, Women, and the Black Death in Central ItalyChapter 4. Women and the Counter Reformation in Siena: Authority and Property in the FamilyChapter 5. Nuns and Dowry Funds: Women's Choices in the RenaissanceChapter 6. Sex and Violence on the Periphery: The Territorial State in Early Renaissance FlorenceChapter 7. Prosperity in the Countryside: The Price Women PaidNotesBibliographyIndex