Queens of Jerusalem Quotes

“He [William of Tyre] does not give much credit to the notion that the women he writes about were individuals as complex as the men, and he prefers to cast women as literary tropes rather than depict them as living, breathing humans.”
― Katherine Pangonis, Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule

“They have been remembered as the wives, mothers, daughters and sisters of powerful men, not as autonomous individuals and active leaders with their own political agency.”
― Katherine Pangonis, Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule