Gendering the Crusades

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-231-12598-7
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Visions of the Crusades call up images of knights, soldiers, and priests. However, evidence suggests that many women played an active role in the actions and culture of the Crusades. Gendering the Crusades stands as the first substantial exploration of this comparatively neglected topic. Offering interdisciplinary readings of new and old sources that examine masculinity, gender roles, and historical narratives, these essays show the key roles played by women in the military, politics, and family life. From the Knights Templars' devotion to female saints to Anna Comnena's account of the first Crusade, all of the topics covered in the book look at the way society structures and imagines itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edgington, Susan

Lambert, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface1.Crusading or Spinning2.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 Crusade5. Perception and Projection of Prejudice: Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade6. Philip Count of Flanders and Hildegard of Bingen:Crusading against the Saracens or Crusading against Deadly Sin?7. Women Warriors during the Crusades, 1095-12548. The Head of St. Euphemia: Templar Devotion to Female Saints9. Captivity and Ransom: The Experience of Women10. Women in Medieval Colonial Society: The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century11. "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 Crusade13. The Crusader's Departure and Return: A Much Later Perspective

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Edgington was formerly a lecturer at Huntingdonshire Regional College and is now a writer.

Sarah Lambert is a lecturer at Goldsmith's College, University of London.