William of Tyre, Femininity, and the Problem of the Antiochene Princesses
This article examines the representation of women and femininity in Archbishop William of Tyre's Chronicon. It considers how his text was shaped by contemporary Western ideas of gender, and how this impacted upon his presentation of women, especially Queen Melisende of Jerusalem and three Antio...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2019, Volume: 70, Issue: 4, Pages: 731-749 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wilhelm, Tyros, Erzbischof 1130-1186, Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum
/ Crusader states
/ Woman
/ Rule
/ Femininity
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa NBE Anthropology |
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| Summary: | This article examines the representation of women and femininity in Archbishop William of Tyre's Chronicon. It considers how his text was shaped by contemporary Western ideas of gender, and how this impacted upon his presentation of women, especially Queen Melisende of Jerusalem and three Antiochene princesses, Alice, Constance and Sybil. It argues that, in doing so, we can raise important questions regarding his use for empirical reconstruction by revealing the nuanced ways in which, in pursuit of broader narrative goals, he utilised gender as a tool to both praise and discredit. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046919000629 |