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Women and the Crusades (Hardcover)
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Women and the Crusades (Hardcover)
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The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer
support, their active participation, and their inspiration... This
book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the
second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first
proposed a penitential military expedition to help the Christians
of the East, and 1570, when the last crusader state, Cyprus, was
captured by the Ottoman Turks. It considers women's actions not
only on crusade battlefields but also in recruiting crusaders,
supporting crusades through patronage, propaganda, and prayer, and
as both defenders and aggressors. It argues that medieval women
were deeply involved in the crusades but the roles that they could
play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were
dictated by social convention and cultural expectations. Although
its main focus is the women of Latin Christendom, it also looks at
the impact of the crusades and crusaders on the Jews of western
Europe and the Muslims of the Middle East, and compares relations
between Latin Christians and Muslims with relations between Muslims
and other Christian groups.
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