Table of contents
1. 'Pro mea hereditate materna,' Perpignan c.1250-1350: Can the Historian Distinguish between Inheritance through and by Women? (Rebecca Winer)
2. Medieval Coptic Canon Law and its Articulation of Gender Relations and Sexuality (Maryann Shenoda)
3. The Boundaries of Affection: Women and property in Late Medieval Avignon (Joelle Rollo-Koster)
4. Women in Venetian Courts (14th Century) (Linda Guzzetti)
5. Testamentary Bequests of Croatian Noble Women (14th Century) (Branka Grbavac)
6. Dowry and Inheritance in Late Medieval Bologna and its Contado (Shona Kelly Wray)
7. 'In the Shadow of the Campo:' Sienese Women and Family Life (Elena Brizio)
8. Resistances, Negotiations, and Self-Government: Forms of Women's Agency in a Male-Oriented Inheritance System in Late Medieval Portugal (Maria de Lurdes Rosa)
9. Propertied Women in Dowry Systems: Florence and Venice Compared (14th-16th centuries) (Isabelle Chabot) 10. Jewish Women in Early Modern Modena: Individual, Household and Collective Properties (Federica Francesconi)
11. Women and Property in Early Modern Spain: Diversity in Dotal and Inheritance Systems (Maria Margerita and Birriel Salcedo)
12. Mothers-in-law in early modern Portugal (Jutta Sperling)
13. Gender, Kinship and Property in Mamluk Society (Yossef Rapoport)
14. Women, Family, and Property in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Anna Bellavitis
15. Women as Outsiders: the Inheritance of Agricultural Land in the Ottoman Empire (Colin Imber)
16. 'Clandestine marriage' or Bride-price: Customary Law as Narrated by Franciscan Missionaries (Aleksandra Djajic and Albanian Horvath)
17. Christian and Muslim Women's Choice of Courts in the Ottoman Empire (16th century) (Evgenia Kermeli)
18. Counting on Kin: Women and Property in Eighteenth-Century Cairo (Mary Ann Fay)
19. Women of Modest Means: Property and Estates of Ottoman Women in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Fariba Zarinebaf)
20. Kin and Marriage in two Aegean Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century (Evdoxios Doxiadis)