The Women of Antioch

The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four women-Constance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antioch-and an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered, including eleventh-century France, Norman Italy, Antioch and Byzantium.

Erin L. Jordan is a member of the Department of History at Colorado State University, USA. She has published on the experience of secular and monastic women in thirteenth-century France. Her current research focuses on gender and political culture in the Mediterranean and the Latin East.