Gendering the crusades / edited by Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert.

Other author Edgington, Susan.
Other author Lambert, Sarah.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxvi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Women--History. --Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Crusades--Participation, Female.
Women in Christianity--History. --Middle Ages, 600-1500.

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.
General noteOriginally published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2001.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-210) and index.
LCCN 2001097194
ISBN0231125984 (cloth)
ISBN0231125992 (paper)

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