This edited collection, written by both established and new researchers, reveals the experiences of litigating women across premodern Europe and captures the current state of research in this ever-growing field.

Introduction 1. Mothers and Daughters and Sons, in the law: Family conflict, legal stories, and women's litigation in late medieval Marseille 2. 'Consent and coercion: women's use of marital consent laws as legal defense in late medieval Paris' 3. Shades of consent: Abduction for marriage and women's agency in the late medieval Low Countries 4. Female Litigants in Secular and Ecclesiastical Courts in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, c.1300-c.1500 5. Widowhood and attainder in medieval Ireland: the case of Margaret Nugent 6. Choosing Chancery? Women's Petitions to the Late Medieval Court of Chancery 7. Gendered roles and female litigants in northeastern England, 1300-1530 8. Property over Patriarchy? Remarried Widows as Litigants in the Records of Glasgow's Commissary Court, 1615-1694 9. Women negotiating wealth: gender, law and arbitration in early modern southern Tyrol 10. A litigating Widow and Wife in Early Modern Sweden: Lady Elin Johansdotter [Månesköld] and Her Family Circle 11. Women litigants in early eighteenth-century Ireland 12. Hidden in plain sight: female litigators, reproductive lives, archival practices and early modern historiography