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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Bom, Myra Miranda. Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades : The Sisters of Saint John of Jerusalem. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Myra Miranda Bom |
| ISBN: | 9781137088307 1137088303 |
| OCLC Number: | 1058540900 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages). |
| Contents: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps, Tables, and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Female Monasticism; 2. Women in Military Orders; 3. The Order of Saint John of Jerusalem; 4. The Lay Sisters of Saint John of Jerusalem; 5. Hospitaller Sisters in the Twelfth Century; 6. Hospitaller Sisters in the Thirteenth Century; 7. The Hospital and Its Female Members; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Series Title: | New Middle Ages. |
Abstract:
This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. introducing questions of gender into the history of the military orders.
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