Women and the Crusades Gerhard J. Plenert were thoroughly jumbled after their

were thoroughly jumbled after their rediscovery in the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum

It is this quality that has helped to make them enduring models for builders of later periods

the topic lent itself to a rich array of theories

Presents a comprehensive

Women and the Crusades Gerhard J. Plenert were thoroughly jumbled after theirThe 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 women's actions not