Women and the Crusades

Helen Nicholson surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading from the 11th century to the 16th, arguing that medieval women were deeply involved in the crusades, but that the roles that they could play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were dictated by social convention and cultural expectations.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Chronology of the Crusades


• List of Popes


• List of Maps and Figures


• A note on names


• Maps


• Figures


• 1: Locating Women in the Crusades: Definitions and Evidence


• 2: Initialising crusades


• 3: Crusade Campaigns


• 4: The Home Front: Supporting the Crusade


• 5: After the Crusade: Memory and Imagination


• Summing Up


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Helen J. Nicholson is Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University, UK. She has published extensively on the crusades, the military orders, and various related subjects, including a translation of a chronicle of the Third Crusade and an edition of the Templar trial proceedings in Britain and Ireland. She has just completed a history of Queen Sybil of Jerusalem (1186-1190).

Summary

Helen Nicholson surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading from the 11th century to the 16th, arguing that medieval women were deeply involved in the crusades, but that the roles that they could play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were dictated by social convention and cultural expectations.

Additional text

Nicholson's Women and the Crusades is sure to be appreciated by students and teachers alike.

Product details

• Authors: Helen J. Nicholson, Helen J. (Professor of Medieval History Nicholson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2023
• EAN: 9780198806721
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880672-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Europe, military history, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Middle East, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Specific wars and campaigns, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Crusades, HISTORY / Europe / Spain