Gendering The Crusades – Susan B Edgington

Burnett and P. Dronke (eds.), Hildegard of Bingen: The Context of her Thought and Art (London, 1998), 17-28 at 23. 10 Hildegardis Epistolarium, CCCM 91, ep. XXII; XXIV-XXIVR; H. Biittner, ‘Die Beziehungen der heiligen Hildegard von Bingen zu Kurie, Erzbischof und Kaiser’, in Universitas: Festschrift A.

Stohr (Mainz, 1960), 2: 60-8. Cf. J. Oroz Reta, ‘La Sibila del Rhin: mision profética de sancta Hildegarda de Bingen’, Latomus 53 (1994), 608-34 at 618-20; Dronke, Women Writers, 196-201. ‘l Schrader and Fiihrkétter, Die Echtheit, 158-60. 12 Tbid., 175; R. W. Southern, ‘Aspects of the European tradition of his- torical writing, 3: history as prophecy’, TRHS 22 (1972), 159-80 at 170. ‘3_ B. Schmeidler, ‘Bemerkungen zum Korpus der Briefe der hl. Hildegard von Bingen’, in E. E. Stengel (ed.), Corona Quernea: Festgabe K. Strecker (Leipzig, 1941), 335-66 at 362-4.

14 Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, cod. lat. 4° 674, fos. 44.45’, ed. Schrader and Fihrkétter, Die Echtheit, 130-1: ‘Omnis enim potestas et principatus ab ipso solo exsistit (cf. Rom 13,1), qui omnia recta ordinatione disponit, et ab ipso nomen accepit, quoniam secundum ipsum regere, corrigere et iudicare populos debent et vias veritatis et iustitie osten- dere’; cf.

W. Berges, Die Fiirstenspiegel des hohen und spdten Mittelalters (MGH Schriften, 2; Leipzig, 1938), 24-6. ‘5 §. Hildegardis Opera PL 197, cols. 145-382, ep. XXVI, 185B—186B: ‘Tempora, in quibus es, veluti in muliebri persona, levia sunt, et etiam in contrariam injustitiam, quae justitiam in vinea Domini destruere tentat, se inclinant’; Maier, ‘Ildegarde di Bingen’, 283-5; for tempus muliebre: B.

Widmer, Heilsordnung und Zeitgeschehen in der Mystik Hildegards von Bingen (Basle and Stuttgart, 1955), 260-6; Newman, Sister of Wisdom, 238-49. 16 For Hildegard and Frederick I: Schrader and Fihrkétter, Die Echtheit, 124-31. Compare these texts with: Analecta S. Hildegardis, in Analecta Sacra 8, ed. J.-B. Pitra (Monte Cassino, 1882), ep. 73, 538, and ibid., ep.

First published in the United Kingdom in 2001 by University of Wales Press Library of Congress CIP number: LCCN2001097194 ISBN 0-231-12598-4 (cloth) ISBN 0-231-12599-2 (paper) © Casebound editions of Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. — Printed in Great Britain by MPG Books, Bodmin c10987654321 p10987654321- Contents aw Preface JAMES M. POWELL List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Crusading or Spinning SARAH LAMBERT Virile Latins, Effeminate Greeks and Strong Women: Gender Definitions on Crusade? MATTHEW BENNETT Home Front and Battlefield: The Gendering of Papal Crusading Policy (1095-1221) CONSTANCE M. ROUSSEAU ‘Unfit to Bear Arms’: The Gendering of Arms and Armour in Accounts of Women on Crusade MICHAEL R.

EVANS Perception and Projection of Prejudice: Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade PETER FRANKOPAN Philip Count of Flanders and Hildegard of Bingen: Crusading against the Saracens or Crusading against Deadly Sin? MIRIAM RITA TESSERA Women Warriors during the Crusades, 1095-1254 KEREN CASPI-REISFELD vil 16 31 45 mh) 77 94 Vi CONTENTS 13 The Head of St Euphemia: Templar Devotion to Female Saints HELEN J. NICHOLSON Captivity and Ransom: The Experience of Women YVONNE FRIEDMAN Women in Medieval Colonial Society: The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century SYLVIA SCHEIN ‘Sont cou ore les fems que jo voi la venir?’

Women in the Chanson d’ Antioche SUSAN B. EDGINGTON The Role of Kerbogha’s Mother in the Gesta Francorum and Selected Chronicles of the First Crusade NATASHA HODGSON The Crusader’s Departure and Return: A Much Later Perspective ELIZABETH SIBERRY Bibliography Index 140 154 163 Te 19] 211 Preface ew JAMES M. POWELL | Bens essays introduce topics that have captured increasing interest among historians of the crusades in recent decades: gender as a factor in social relationships and the various roles played by women in the crusade movement.

In the latter case, the immediate reaction may be to question women’s involvement in and impact on what were chiefly military events. These essays quickly lay that view to rest.

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