Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 3958
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Mazeika , Rasa.
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  • Title: Nowhere Was the Fragility of Their Sex Apparent: Women Warriors in the Baltic Crusade Chronicles [The author argues that the chroniclers, members of military monastic orders, expected women to defend themselves in a war zone where there were constant raiding parties].
  • Source: From Clermont to Jerusalem: the Crusades and Crusader societies, 1095-1500: selected proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 10-13 July 1995.  Edited by Alan V. MurrayInternational Medieval Research.  Brepols, 1998.  Pages 229 - 248.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Baltic Crusade Chronicles Peter of Dusburg, Priest in the Teutonic Order and Author- Chronicon Terrae Prussiae Virile Women Warfare and Warriors
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Europe
  • Century: 13- 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: Lithuanian Museum and Archives of Canada, Toronto
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 2503506674