Gendering the crusades
Explores the role of women in the action and culture of the Crusades - an area traditionally viewed as a male domain. It explores how society structured and imagined itself, from the Knights Templars' devotion to female saints to Anna Comnena's account of the first Crusade.
Print Book, English, cop. 2002
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Columbia University Press, New York, cop. 2002
History
xvi,215 p. ill. 23 cm
9780231125987, 0231125984
1088005713
Preface 1. Crusading or Spinning 2. Virile Latins, Effeminate Greeks, and Stong Women: Gender Definitions on Crusade? 3. Home Front and Battlefield: The Gendering of Papal Crusading Policy (1095-1221) 4. "Unfit to Bear Arms": The Gendering of Arms and Armour in Accounts of Women on Crusade 5. Perception and Projection of Prejudice: Anna Comnena, the Alexiad, and the First Crusade 6. Philip Count of Flanders and Hildegard of Bingen: Crusading against the Saracens or Crusading against Deadly Sin? 7. Women Warriors During the Crusades, 1095-1254 8. The Head of St. Euphemia: Templar Devotion to Female Saints 9. Captivity and Ransom: The Experience of Women 10. Women in Medieval Colonial Society: The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century 11. "Sont cou ore les fems que jo voi la venir? Women in the Chansom d' Antioche. 12. The Role of Kerbogha's Mother in the Gesta Francorum and Selected Chronicles of the First Crusade 13. The Crusader's Departure and Return: A Much Later Perspective