Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.

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