| Description |
xvi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2001. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Crusades -- Participation, Female.
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Crusades. |
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Women in Christianity -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Edgington, Susan.
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Lambert, Sarah.
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| ISBN |
0231125984 cloth |
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0231125992 paper |
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