Considers how elite women could participate in Crusade, their means and motivations. The popular perception of the medieval Crusades is of conflicts spanning fr

The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration... This book surveys women's involvement

These papers explore major themes in recent scholarship on the medieval crusade and its religious, political and cultural context, re-evaluating the issue of "w

First comprehensive study of miracles in Crusade narrative, showing how and why they were deployed by their authors.