Katherine Pangonis

Queens of Jerusalem

The Women Who Dared to Rule

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 127mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781474614092
• ISBN-10: 1474614094
• Artikelnr.: 62844324

Autorenporträt

Katherine Pangonis is a historian specialising in the medieval world of the Mediterranean and Middle East. She holds MA degrees in literature and history from Oxford University and University College London. She has a particular interest in rewriting the voices of women into the historical narrative, re-examining understudied areas of history and bringing her findings into the public eye. Travel is central to her research process, and that is how she spends most of her time.

Rezensionen

Fascinating, intriguing, exciting and authoritative. Here are the female rulers of the crusader states as shrewd politicians, warrior queens and mothers and wives, holding their own against male crusader states and Islamic warlords in the ruthless arena of the Middle East. The female crusader potentates have long been neglected, so this is long overdue and it was worth waiting for Simon Sebag Montefiore