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Queens of the Crusades

As promoters, propagandists, patrons and warriors, women were everywhere during the Crusades. 

Helen J. Nicholson | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 8 August 2023

Detail of a miniature of the meeting between Alexander and the Amazons. Image taken from f. 47v of Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre), c. 1420. British Library. Public Domain.
Detail of a miniature of the meeting between Alexander and the Amazons in the French manuscript Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre, c. 1420. British Library. Public Domain.

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