This book is a revised edition of my doctoral dissertation, Choice and consequence. Propertied womenâs economic agency in Norway c.1400â1550. I am grateful to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (ntnu) for making this research possible by providing me with a doctoral scholarship.
For this edition I first and foremost wish to thank my former supervisor Randi Bjørshol Wærdahl who has guided me steadily through academia since I first knocked on her office door back in 2010. Her expertise has been invaluable, and I am truly grateful for her continuous support, patience, and encouragement. I also wish to express my gratitude towards my opponents Anu Lahtinen and Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir for valuable comments. Present and former colleagues at the history departments at ntnu deserve my gratitude for their continual support. I also wish to thank the Department of Historical and Classical Studies for providing funds for proofreading and copy editing. A special thanks goes to Michael Mulryan for his thorough proofreading and to Marcella Mulder at Brill for her kind guidance and support. The Royal Danish Library kindly permitted me to use the illumination from gks 1154 2° as a cover illustration.
Thank you to family and friends, to Terje, Jon Ingemar and Amund.
Susann Anett Pedersen
Trondheim, January 2023