IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1609: Assessing the Roles of Crusaders' Wives in the High Middle Ages

Thursday 10 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Society for the Study of the Crusades & the Latin East
Organisers:	Melanie Panse, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen Danielle Park, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Moderator/Chair:	Amalie Fößel, Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Paper 1609-a	Visible Power: Charters and Seals of French Crusaders' Wives (Language: English) Melanie Panse, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Crusades, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Paper 1609-b	For Richer and For Poorer: Papal Protection and Non-Noble Crusaders' Wives (Language: English) Danielle Park, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Crusades, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Paper 1609-c	The Religious Patronage of Crusaders' Wives: A Noblewoman's Crusade? (Language: English) Charlotte Pickard, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Crusades, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Abstract	While crusading and crusaders attract considerable interest in scholarship the crusaders' wives rarely receive this attention. The aim of this session is to redress this balance. Previous research has focused on canonical strictures for the remarriage of crusaders' wives and the functions of these women as part of a separation motif that highlighted the crusaders' masculinity. Individual women have been studied as facilitators of crusading. This session will build on this research to explore crusaders' wives from a range of material and written sources to illustrate that the roles of these women were more diverse than we might suppose.