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Women, crusading and the Holy Land in historical narrative
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ISBN: 9781843833321 9781846156038 Year: 2007 Volume: *24 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

Women, crusading and the Holy Land in historical narrative
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ISBN: 1282150707 9786612150708 1846156033 1843833328 Year: 2007 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press,

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Women's role in crusades and crusading is examined here through a close investigation of the narratives in which they appear. Narratives of crusading have often been overlooked as a source for the history of women because of their focus on martial events, and perceptions about women inhibiting the recruitment and progress of crusading armies. Yet women consistently appeared in the histories of crusade and settlement, performing a variety of roles. While some were vilified as 'useless mouths' or prostitutes, others undertook menial tasks for the army, went on crusade with retinues of their own knights, and rose to political prominence in the Levant and and the West. This book compares perceptions of women from a wide range of historical narratives including those eyewitness accounts, lay histories and monastic chronicles that pertained to major crusade expeditions and the settler society in the Holy Land. It addresses how authors used events involving women and stereotypes based on gender, family role, and social status in writing their histories: how they blended historia and fabula, speculated on women's motivations, and occasionally granted them a literary voice in order to connect with their audience, impart moral advice, and justify the crusade ideal. Dr NATASHA R. HODGSON teaches at Nottingham Trent University.


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Women, crusading and the Holy Land in historical narrative
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Miracles, political authority and violence in medieval and early modern history
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ISBN: 9780367767266 0367767260 9780367767280 0367767287 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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"This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods. Miracles, Political Authority and Violence is of interest to scholars and students in several fields including religion and violence, political and military history, and theology and the reception of sacred texts in the medieval and early modern world"--


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Crusading and masculinities
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ISBN: 9781138054677 1138054674 9781315166490 1315166496 9781351680158 1351680153 9781351680134 1351680137 9781351680141 1351680145 9780367660611 Year: 2019 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,

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This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading and masculinity, focusing on the varied ways in which the symbiotic relationship between the two was made manifest in a range of medieval settings and sources, and to what ends. Ideas about masculinity formed an inherent part of the mindset of societies in which crusading happened, and of the conceptual framework informing both those who recorded the events and those who participated. Examination and interrogation of these ideas enables a better contextualised analysis of how those events were experienced, comprehended and portrayed. The collection is structured around five themes: sources and models; contrasting masculinities; emasculation and transgression; masculinity and religiosity and kingship and chivalry. By incorporating masculinity within their analysis of the crusades and of crusaders the contributors demonstrate how such approaches greatly enhance our understanding of crusading as an ideal, an institution and an experience. Individual essays consider western campaigns to the Middle East and Islamic responses; events and sources from the Iberian peninsula and Prussia are also interrogated and re-examined, thus enabling cross-cultural comparison of the meanings attached to medieval manhood. The collection also highlights the value of employing gender as a vital means of assessing relationships between different groups of men, whose values and standards of behaviour were socially and culturally constructed in distinct ways.


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Religion and conflict in medieval and early modern worlds : identities, communities and authorities
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ISBN: 9781138323797 1138323799 9781138323803 1138323802 Year: 2021 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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"This volume seeks to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. The essays examine ideas about religion and conflict in the context of text and identity, church and state, civic environments, marriage, the parish, heresy, gender, dialogues, war and finance, and Holy War. With both written and visual sources being explored, this volume is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers of religion and military, political, social, legal, cultural or intellectual conflict in medieval and early modern worlds"--

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