Gendering the crusades
By: edited by Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert.
Contributors: Edgington, Susan.; Lambert, Sarah.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.; Crusades -- Participation, Female.; Women in Christianity -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-210) and index.
Originally published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2001.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface vii; title: JAMES M. POWELL; title: List of Contributors xi; title: List of Abbreviations xv; title: 1 Crusading or Spinning 1; title: SARAH LAMBERT; title: 2 Virile Latins, Effeminate Greeks and Strong Women:; title: Gender Definitions on Crusade? 16; title: MATTHEW BENNETT; title: 3 Home Front and Battlefield: The Gendering of Papal; title: Crusading Policy (1095-1221) 31; title: CONSTANCE M. ROUSSEAU; title: 4 'Unfit to Bear Arms': The Gendering of Arms and; title: Armour in Accounts of Women on Crusade 45; title: MICHAEL R. EVANS; title: 5 Perception and Projection of Prejudice: Anna Comnena,; title: the Alexiad and the First Crusade 59; title: PETER FRANKOPAN; title: 6 Philip Count of Flanders and Hildegard of Bingen:; title: Crusading against the Saracens or Crusading against; title: Deadly Sin? 77; title: MIRIAM RITA TESSERA; title: 7 Women Warriors during the Crusades, 1095-1254 94; title: KEREN CASPI-REISFELD; title: 8 The Head of St Euphemia: Templar Devotion to Female; title: Saints 108; title: HELEN J. NICHOLSON; title: 9 Captivity and Ransom: The Experience of Women 121; title: YVONNE FRIEDMAN; title: 10 Women in Medieval Colonial Society: The Latin; title: Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century 140; title: SYLVIA SCHEIN; title: 11 'Sont qou ore les fems que jo voi la venir?' Women in the; title: Chanson d'Antioche 154; title: SUSAN B. EDGINGTON; title: 12 The Role of Kerbogha's Mother in the Gesta Francorum; title: and Selected Chronicles of the First Crusade 163; title: NATASHA HODGSON; title: 13 The Crusader's Departure and Return: A Much Later; title: Perspective 177; title: ELIZABETH SIBERRY; title: Bibliography 191; title: Index 211.