Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250a 1300 investigates the gender system at work in medieval Perpignan. Using a series of notarial registers a unique as surviving records for the social history of the thirteenth-century realms of Aragon and Majorca, the political confederations to which this town belonged a Rebecca L. Winer opens a window onto the experiences of women and their families. Her interpretive framework reveals medieval assumptions about the distinct natures of Christian, Jewish, and enslaved Muslim women by analyzing which actions were curbed, controlled, or...