Widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner.

Harlow, Essex, UK ; New York : Longman, 1999.

xiii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Men, women and widows : widowhood in pre-Conquest England / Julia Crick -- Finding widowers : men without women in English towns before 1700 / Margaret Pelling -- The widow's options in medieval southern Italy / Patricia Skinner -- The virtuous widow in Protestant England / Barbara J. Todd -- Widows, widowers and the problem of 'second marriages' in sixteenth-century France / Lyndan Warner -- Marrying the experienced widow in early modern England : the male perspective / Elizabeth Foyster -- Lineage strategies and the control of widows in Renaissance Florence / Isabelle Chabot -- Property and widowhood in England 1660-1840 / Amy Louise Erickson -- Religious difference and the experience of widowhood in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany / Dagmar Freist -- Elite widows and religious expression in early modern Spain : the view from Avila / Jodi Bilinkoff -- Widows at law in Tudor and Stuart England / Tim Stretton -- Widows, the state and the guardianship of children in early modern Tuscany / Giulia Calvi -- Survival strategies and stories : poor widows and widowers in early industrial England / Pamela Sharpe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.