1st Edition
The Women of Antioch Gender and Political Culture, 1095–1204
By Erin L. Jordan
Copyright 2025
176 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four women—Constance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antioch—and an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered, including eleventh-century France, Norman Italy, Antioch and Byzantium.
The book’s comparative perspective facilitates the discernment of... Read more
Introduction: Setting the Stage 1. Constance of France 2. Alice of Jerusalem 3. Constance of Antioch 4. Maria of Antioch Epilogue
Biography
Erin L. Jordan is a member of the Department of History at Colorado State University, USA. She has published on the experience of secular and monastic women in thirteenth-century France. Her current research focuses on gender and political culture in the Mediterranean and the Latin East.
