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Preface vii JAMES M. POWELL List of Contributors xi List of Abbreviations xv 1 Crusading or Spinning 1 SARAH LAMBERT 2 Virile Latins, Effeminate Greeks and Strong Women: Gender Definitions on Crusade? 16 MATTHEW BENNETT 3 Home Front and Battlefield: The Gendering of Papal Crusading Policy (1095-1221) 31 CONSTANCE M. ROUSSEAU 4 'Unfit to Bear Arms': The Gendering of Arms and Armour in Accounts of Women on Crusade 45 MICHAEL R. EVANS 5 Perception and Projection of Prejudice: Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade 59 PETER FRANKOPAN 6 Philip Count of Flanders and Hildegard of Bingen: Crusading against the Saracens or Crusading against Deadly Sin? 77 MIRIAM RITA TESSERA 7 Women Warriors during the Crusades, 1095-1254 94 KEREN CASPI-REISFELD 8 The Head of St Euphemia: Templar Devotion to Female Saints 108 HELEN J. NICHOLSON 9 Captivity and Ransom: The Experience of Women 121 YVONNE FRIEDMAN 10 Women in Medieval Colonial Society: The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century 140 SYLVIA SCHEIN 11 'Sont qou ore les fems que jo voi la venir?' Women in the Chanson d'Antioche 154 SUSAN B. EDGINGTON 12 The Role of Kerbogha's Mother in the Gesta Francorum and Selected Chronicles of the First Crusade 163 NATASHA HODGSON 13 The Crusader's Departure and Return: A Much Later Perspective 177 ELIZABETH SIBERRY Bibliography 191 Index 211