Women in the military orders of the crusades

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    • Bom, Myra Miranda

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Women in the military orders of the crusades

Myra Miranda Bom

(The new Middle Ages)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Bibliography: p. [197]-221

Includes index

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Description

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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Female Monasticism The Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Female Hospitallers The Hospital and its Female Members

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