Everyone: There's almost nothing written on women's roles in the crusades. 3 wks later, I have 193 sources on women's roles in the crusades
I'm plunging in & reading everything that looks interesting for now. Will narrow focus after Xmas. What are you looking at?
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My MA dissertation focused on second and third generation Christian settlers born into the Kingdom during 1174-1187...
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Ooh! Interesting!
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I was supposed to add, the title was 'The Other in Outremer: Levantine Identity, Politics and Perceptions, 1174 - 1187'.
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Hugely theoretical and historiographical! So I hope it makes a splash!
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Theoretical in the sense of postcolonial othering? I looked at Margery Kempe thru Kristevan psych which mirrors theology.
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The orient yes, and I explored occidentalism as inversion of the other by Muslims who saw settlers as more acclimatised thn cru!
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Ooh! Excellent! I am moving away from theory now. I tried using evolutionary psychology but it went down very badly!
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In what way? I'm curious how it could go wrong as it's presumably just a process of using it as method to explain action?
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