Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Land, Family, and Women in Continental Europe, 701-1200 13
6. Infanticide in the Early Middle Ages 47
7. Women in Reconquest Castile: The Fueros of Sepulveda and Cuenca 71
8. Marriage and Divorce in the Frankish Kingdom 95
9. The Female Felon in Fourteenth- Century England 125
10. Mulieres Sanctae 141
11. Widow and Ward: The Feudal Law of Child Custody in Medieval England 159
12. Dowries and Kinsmen in Early Renaissance Venice 173
13. Women in Charter and Statute Law: Medieval Ragusa/Dubrovnik 199
14. Selected Bibliography 209
15. Contributors 213
16. Index 215