1. Widow's Peek: Looking at Ritual and Representation / Allison Levy
2. 'Widowhood was the time of her greatest perfection': Ideals of Widowhood and Sanctity in Florentine Art / Catherine Lawless
3. Memento Mori: Death, Widowhood and Remembering in Early Modern England / J. S. W. Helt
4. Mourning Widows: Portraits of Widows and Widowhood in Funeral Sermons from Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel / Marina Arnold
5. Casting Her Widowhood: The Contemporary and Posthumous Portraits of Caterina Sforza / Joyce de Vries
6. Widow's Tears, A Queen's Ambition: The Variable History of Marie de Medici's Bereavement / Elizabeth McCartney
7. Conceptualizing the Kaiserinwitwe: Empress Maria Theresia and Her Portraits / Michael E. Yonan
8. Individual Fame and Family Honor: The Tomb of Dogaressa Agnes da Mosto Venier / Holly S. Hurlburt
9. Margaret of Austria and the Encoding of Power in Patronage: The Funerary Foundation at Brou / Laura D. Gelfand
10. Widow Building in Elizabethan England: Bess of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall / Sara French
11. Constructing Convents in Sixteenth-Century Castile: Toledan Widows and Patterns of Patronage / Stephanie Fink De Backer
12. Trecento Rome: The Poetics and Politics of Widowhood / Cristelle L. Baskins
13. Framing Widows: Mourning, Gender and Portraiture in Early Modern Florence / Allison Levy
14. Contested Narratives: Elisabeth of Austria and a Relic of St. Leopold / Amelia Carr
15. Last Rites: Mourning Identities (?) / Allison Levy.