Women and the Crusades

by Helen J. Nicholson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198806728
• ISBN13: 9780198806721
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"