Olaia, InêsRodrigues, Ana Maria S. A.2025-01-292025-01-292024Olaia, Inês, and Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues. 2024. “Reginal Income and Expenditure: The Household Accounts of Maria of Castile and Aragon, Queen of Portugal, in 1501–1508.” Journal of Medieval History 50 (5): 637–68. doi:10.1080/03044181.2024.2416108.0304-4181http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/97901This paper explores the only known surviving detailed economic register of a queen of Portugal’s expenses up to the early sixteenth century. Covering the early years of Maria of Castile and Aragon’s queenship (1501– 1508), the document gives extraordinary insight into the queen’s household and the management of her finances. The study conducted over the book allows us to become acquainted with some of Queen Maria’s ladies, officials, and servants, detect expenditure patterns, and get a glimpse of daily life at court, along with how the queen constructs her image, exercises her patronage and consolidates her authority. It is also possible to better understand how connected Portugal and Castile were, both economically and culturally, even before the Dual Monarchy.engQueenshipAccount booksIncomeExpenditurejournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2024.24161081873-1279