The Powerful Women of Outremer

The Powerful Women of Outremer

Forgotten Heroines of the Crusader States

Helena P Schrader

First published in Great Britain in 2024 by

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Table of Contents

Introduction

List of Illustrations

Chronology

Part I: A History of the Women of Outremer

Chapter 1 Women in the Era of the Crusades

Women in Western Europe

The Ancient World

The Impact of Christianity

The Impact of Feudalism

The Impact of Chivalry

Women in the Muslim World

Women in Outremer ’ A Unique Status?

Chapter 2 The First Crusade and the Establishment of the Crusader States

Casus Belli: Jerusalem

A New Kind of War: The Combination of ‘Just War’ and Religious Pilgrimage

The People’s Crusade

The First Crusade

Chapter 3 The Crusader States, 1099–1190

Jerusalem Without A Queen

Godfrey de Bouillon, Protector of the Holy Sepulchre 1099–1100: The Bachelor

Baldwin I, 1100–1118: The Bigamist