Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 4872
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  • Title: Alice of Antioch: A Case Study of Female Power in the Twelfth Century [The author analyzes Alice's efforts to gain power in Antioch following the death of her husband, Bohemond II. Her young daughter Constance was the next in line, but Alice set up an independent lordship in exile and again attempted to seize power in Antioch in 1135. Her efforts were not successful, but the author argues that scholars should give her life fair consideration rather than be influenced by William of Tyre's negative portrayal of her. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: The Experience of Crusading. Volume Two: Defining the Crusader Kingdom.  Edited by Peter Edbury and Jonathan Phillips.  Cambridge University Press, 2003.  Pages 29 - 47.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Alice of Antioch, Daughter of Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, and Wife of Bohemond II, Prince of Antioch Diplomacy Politics Power Rulers William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre and Historian Women in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean
  • Century: 12
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  • Year of Publication: 2003.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0521781515