This site aims to facilitate access to teaching and learning resources relating to women and the crusades. It is hoped that the background information, bibliographies, biographies, lesson plans and glossaries provided will enable teachers and students to discover more about the numerous ways women of diverse religious, ethnic, geographic and social backgrounds contributed to – and were impacted by – various crusading movements. In doing so, it is expected that this site will enable teachers to diversify History curriculums and include historically marginalised and overlooked groups in teaching – and therefore to empower students from diverse backgrounds to study, write and work in History.

This site has been set up by members of Nottingham Trent University’s Religion, Conflict and Resolution Research Group (Natasha Hodgson, Jen Pearce and Cat Gower), in conjunction with the group’s Teaching Medieval Women initiative.