Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
by Pangonis, Katherine
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Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis
In 1187, Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the Battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defense was being led by an unlikely trio -- including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They could not resist Saladin, but, if they were lucky, they could negotiate terms that would save the lives of the city's inhabitants.
Queen Sibylla was the last of a line of formidable female rulers in the Crusader States of Outremer. Yet for all the books written about the Crusades, one aspect is conspicuously absent: the stories of women. Queens and princesses tend to be presented as passive transmitters of land and royal blood. In reality, women ruled, conducted diplomatic negotiations, made military decisions, forged alliances, rebelled, and undertook architectural projects. Sibylla's grandmother Queen Melisende was the first queen to seize real political agency in Jerusalem and rule in her own right. She outmaneuvered both her husband and son to seize real power in her kingdom, and was a force to be reckoned with in the politics of the medieval Middle East. The lives of her Armenian mother, her three sisters, and their daughters and granddaughters were no less intriguing.
Queens of Jerusalem is a stunning debut by a rising historian and a rich, fresh, history of medieval Palestine.
PEGASUS, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2022.
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- Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule
- Author
- Pangonis, Katherine
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 164313924X
- ISBN 13
- 9781643139241
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- Pegasus Books
- Date Published
- 2022
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- Women's Studies; History - Middle East;