Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

Katherine Lewis at the University of Huddersfield

Natasha Hodgson at Nottingham Trent University

Danielle Park at Royal Holloway, University of London

The Melisende Psalter

Twelfth-Century Girl Power: Medieval manuscripts blog – British Library

How Game of Thrones reflects historical anxieties about women, motherhood and power by Natasha Hodgson - The Conversation

Letters of Melisende

Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem – Wikipedia

READING LIST:

Derek Baker (ed.), Medieval Women (Blackwell, 1978), especially ‘Women in the Crusader States: The Queens of Jerusalem’ by Bernard Hamilton 

Malcolm Barber, The Crusader States (Yale University Press, 2012)

Theresa Earenfight (ed.), Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), especially ‘The Spending Power of a Crusader Queen: Melisende of Jerusalem’ by H. A. Gaudette

Theresa Earenfight, Queenship in Medieval Europe (Palgrave, 2012)

Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert (eds,), Gendering the Crusades (University of Wales Press, 2001)

Natasha R. Hodgson, Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative (Boydell Press, 2017)

Therese Martin (ed.), Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture (Brill, 2015), especially ‘Melisende of Jerusalem: Queen and Patron of Art and Architecture in the Crusader Kingdom’ by J. Folda

Danielle Park, Fulk and Melisende: King and Queen of Jerusalem (forthcoming - Routledge, 2021)

Jonathan Phillips, Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades (Vintage, 2010)

Denys Pringle, The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus: vol. III, The City of Jerusalem (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Steve Tibble, The Crusader Armies (Yale University Press, 2018)