Gendering the Crusades

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Susan Edgington, Sarah Lambert
Columbia University Press, 2002 - 215 strani
Visions of the Crusades call up images of knights, soldiers, and priests. However, evidence suggests that many women played an active role in the actions and culture of the Crusades. Gendering the Crusades stands as the first substantial exploration of this comparatively neglected topic. Offering interdisciplinary readings of new and old sources that examine masculinity, gender roles, and historical narratives, these essays show the key roles played by women in the military, politics, and family life. From the Knights Templars' devotion to female saints to Anna Comnena's account of the first Crusade, all of the topics covered in the book look at the way society structures and imagines itself.

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Crusading or Spinning
1
Virile Latins Effeminate Greeks and Strong Women Gender Definitions on Crusade?
16
Home Front and Battlefield The Gendering of Papal Crusading Policy 10951221
31
Unfit to Bear Arms The Gendering of Arms and Armour in Accounts of Women on Crusade
45
Perception and Projection of Prejudice Anna Comnena the Alexiad and the First Crusade
59
Philip Count of Flanders and Hildegard of Bingen Crusading against the Saracens or Crusading against Deadly Sin?
77
Women Warriors during the Crusades 10951254
94
The Head of St Euphemia Templar Devotion to Female Saints
108
Captivity and Ransom The Experience of Women
121
Women in Medieval Colonial Society The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century
140
Sont cou ore les ferns que jo voi la venir? Women in the Chanson dAntioche
154
The Role of Kerboghas Mother in the Gesta Francorum and Selected Chronicles of the First Crusade
163
The Crusaders Departure and Return A Much Later Perspective
177
Bibliography
191
Index
211
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