Vol. 44 No. 1 (2026): Essays in Economic & Business History

Articles

• Introduction: Administrative Practices and Resource Management of Ruling Women in Premodern Europe

  Katia Wright, Cathleen Sarti, Charlotte Backerra

  1-9

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• Financial Management in Late Medieval Iberia: Fluctuating Patrimony, Indebtedness, and Economic Policy in Queen Violant of Bar’s Finances (r. 1387-1396)

  Lledó Ruiz Domingo

  10-28

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• Authority, Guidance, and the Management of Land: Key Motives Behind the Establishment of the Queen’s Chancellery in Early Fifteenth-Century Portugal

  Manuela Santos Silva

  29-44

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• The Queen as Lady of the Manor: The Economic Agency of the Tudor Queen Consorts in relation to their Manorial Interests

  Elizabeth Norton

  45-63

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• A Risky Business? Representing Catherine de’ Medici’s silk Entrepreneurialism

  Susan Broomhall

  64-80

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• Managing an Imperial Household: Empress Maria of Austria as financial Agent (1548-1581)

  Rubén González Cuerva

  81-98

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