Much "We don't want to lose you but we think you ought to go' to accounts of women's attitudes to the crusades. Hard to know how accurate
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Because this is largely reported by men writing heroic narratives of the crusades. Only the right attitudes got reported.
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They want to show women supported men going off to crusades even tho their absence made their survival & that of their children less certain
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Women saying 'I don't want you to die & we also need you here working the land so we don't' would not have been recorded.
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Men sent other men who did not go on the crusades wool & distaff to indicate they were only fit for women's work.Equivalent to white feather
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