Gendering the crusades
"Although the popular image of the Crusades may suggest that they were solely the domain of male clerics and soldiers, there is extensive edidence to prove that this was not the case. While a handful of academic articles have hinted at this issue in the past, [tghis book] is the first substantial exploration of this contemporarily neglected topic. This ... collection provides both innovative readings of well-known texts and examinations of new source materials, and discusses a wide range of subjects, from the medieval construction of gender to the military of women in the Crusades. Other essays consider questions of masculinity, the role of female saints and religious figures in the Crusades, and the relationship of Crusaders to their families. ..."--Back cover
Aufsatzsammlung
xvi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780231125987, 9780231125994, 0231125984, 0231125992
49773944
Crusading or spinning / Sarah Lambert
Virile Latins, effeminate Greeks and strong women: gender definitions on Crusade? / Matthew Bennett
Home front and battlefield: the gendering of papal crusading policy (1095-1221) / Constance M. Rousseau
'Unfit to bear arms': the gendering of arms and armour in accounts of women on Crusade / Michael R. Evans
Perception and projection of prejudice: Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade / Peter Frankopan
Philip Count of Flanders and Hildegard of Bingen: crusading against the Saracens or crusading against deadly sin? / Miriam Rita Tessera
Women warriors during the Crusades, 1095-1254 / Keren Caspi-Reisfeld
The head of St. Euphemia: Templar devotion to female saints / Helen J. Nicholson
Captivity and ransom: the experience of women / Yvonne Friedman
Women in medieval colonial society: the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem in the twelfth century / Sylvia Schein
'Sont çou ore les fems quo jo voi la venir?' Women in the Chanson d'Antioche / Susan B. Edgington
The role of Kerbogha's mother in the Gesta Francorum and selected chronicles of the First Crusade / Natasha Hodgson
The crusader's departure and return: a much later perspective / Elizabeth Siberry
Originally published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2001