Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades
M. Bom, "Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades "
English | ISBN: 023011413X | 2012 | 251 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 023011413X | 2012 | 251 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.