Forgotten Women of the Crusades

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🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Little has been known up until now about the involvement and power of women during the Crusader period. When Saladin's armies besieged Jerusalem in 1187, behind the city walls a last-ditch defense was being led by an unlikely trio - including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. She was the last of a line of formidable female rulers in the Crusader States of Outremer - a world where women conducted diplomatic negotiations, made military decisions, forged alliances, rebelled, and undertook architectural projects. In today's episode, Gone Medieval goes to India! Cat is on location at the Jaipur Literature Festival where she is joined by Katherine Pangonis, a historian and author specialising in the medieval world of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Together they explore some of the women who dared to rule.

Katherine Pangonis is the author of Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule, published by Orion Publishing Co.

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered why one of Ruan Cathedral's towers is called the Tower of Butter, or what
0:06.2	animals have faced trials in courts for, or even how the black country got its name?
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0:29.9	book. Hello and welcome to Gone Medieval. I'm Dr Cat Jarman.
0:40.4	Most of our listeners will probably have heard about the crusades, probably redder, book or something.
0:45.6	In fact, there's an endless number of books and films written about the crusades.
0:50.0	But one of the things that's quite often missing from these stories is the women and the stories
0:55.3	of the women. But actually, they shouldn't be missing from those stories. And now there's a new
1:01.1	book that deals with all of this. And in 1187, Saladin's armies besieged the Holy City of Jerusalem.
1:09.4	He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the Battle of Hattin and behind the city's
1:14.0	high walls a last ditch defense was being led by an unlikely trio, including Cibilla, Queen
1:20.0	of Jerusalem. She was the last of a line of formidable female rulers in the crusader states of
1:26.2	Utrema. All of this is a topic of a book called Queen's of Jerusalem, the women who dared to rule
1:32.8	by Catherine Panganus. And Catherine Panganus is a historian specialising in the medieval world
1:38.0	of the Mediterranean and the Middle East and in particularly trying to write the voices of women
1:43.8	back into those narratives. Catherine normally lives in Beirut, but she is with me now in quite
1:49.8	a different location because we are in India, we're at the Jaipur literature festival where Catherine
1:55.6	has had her first book featured and spoken at the festival. So welcome to the podcast from India,
2:02.2	Catherine. Thanks so much for having me, Kat. It's a delight to be here. So we are at the festival now.
2:06.8	We just sneak away into a little corner so you can hear lots of festival noises in the background,
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