Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades E-Book

M. Bom

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: The New Middle Ages
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

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.