Women and the Crusades Gerhard J. Plenert Each Author in this publication

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Women and the Crusades Gerhard J. Plenert Each Author in this publicationThe 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