Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades
This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing questions of gender into the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan US
2012, 2012
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| Series: | The New Middle Ages
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing questions of gender into the history of the military orders |
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| Physical Description: | XXI, 251 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781137088307 |