An important starting point for anyone who wants to understand regional variation, chronological change, and the relation between learned law and pragmatic legal processes relating to women and their economic roles.

• Introduction: Uncovering Married Women - Cordelia Beattie and Matthew Frank StevensWhen Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland - Gillian KennyInheritance, Property and Marriage in Medieval Norway - Lars Ivar HansenSpousal Disputes, the Marital Property System, and the Law in Later Medieval Sweden - Mia KorpiolaMarried Women, Crime and the Courts in Late Medieval Wales - Lizabeth JohnsonPeasant Women, Agency and Status in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century England: Some Reconsiderations - Miriam MullerLondon's Married Women, Debt Litigation and Coverture in the Court of Common Pleas - Matthew Frank StevensMarried Women, Contracts and Coverture in Late Medieval England - Cordelia BeattieProperty, Family and Partnership: Married Women and Legal Capability in Late Medieval Ghent - Shennan Hutton'For His Interest'?: Women, Debt and Coverture in Early Modern Scotland - Cathryn SpenceThe Worth of Married Women Witnesses in the English Church Courts, 1550-1730 - Alexandra ShepardMarried Women, Work and the Law: Evidence from Early Modern Germany - Sheilagh Ogilvie

An important starting point for anyone who wants to understand regional variation, chronological change, and the relation between learned law and pragmatic legal processes relating to women and their economic roles.

• Introduction: Uncovering Married Women - Cordelia Beattie and Matthew Frank StevensWhen Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland - Gillian KennyInheritance, Property and Marriage in Medieval Norway - Lars Ivar HansenSpousal Disputes, the Marital Property System, and the Law in Later Medieval Sweden - Mia KorpiolaMarried Women, Crime and the Courts in Late Medieval Wales - Lizabeth JohnsonPeasant Women, Agency and Status in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century England: Some Reconsiderations - Miriam MullerLondon's Married Women, Debt Litigation and Coverture in the Court of Common Pleas - Matthew Frank StevensMarried Women, Contracts and Coverture in Late Medieval England - Cordelia BeattieProperty, Family and Partnership: Married Women and Legal Capability in Late Medieval Ghent - Shennan Hutton'For His Interest'?: Women, Debt and Coverture in Early Modern Scotland - Cathryn SpenceThe Worth of Married Women Witnesses in the English Church Courts, 1550-1730 - Alexandra ShepardMarried Women, Work and the Law: Evidence from Early Modern Germany - Sheilagh Ogilvie

An important starting point for anyone who wants to understand regional variation, chronological change, and the relation between learned law and pragmatic legal processes relating to women and their economic roles.

• Introduction: Uncovering Married Women - Cordelia Beattie and Matthew Frank StevensWhen Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland - Gillian KennyInheritance, Property and Marriage in Medieval Norway - Lars Ivar HansenSpousal Disputes, the Marital Property System, and the Law in Later Medieval Sweden - Mia KorpiolaMarried Women, Crime and the Courts in Late Medieval Wales - Lizabeth JohnsonPeasant Women, Agency and Status in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century England: Some Reconsiderations - Miriam MullerLondon's Married Women, Debt Litigation and Coverture in the Court of Common Pleas - Matthew Frank StevensMarried Women, Contracts and Coverture in Late Medieval England - Cordelia BeattieProperty, Family and Partnership: Married Women and Legal Capability in Late Medieval Ghent - Shennan Hutton'For His Interest'?: Women, Debt and Coverture in Early Modern Scotland - Cathryn SpenceThe Worth of Married Women Witnesses in the English Church Courts, 1550-1730 - Alexandra ShepardMarried Women, Work and the Law: Evidence from Early Modern Germany - Sheilagh Ogilvie