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1.Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples, p.120.
2. Ibid., pp.120-1.
3. Ibid., pp. 121-2.
4. Ibid., p.120.
5. Ibid., p.119.
6. Power, Medieval Women, p.9.
7. Ibid.
8. G.G.Coulton, Medieval Panorama: The Horizons of Thought II, Fontana, London, 1961, p.266.
9. A.K.R. Kiralfy, Potter's Historical Introduction to English Laws Sweet and Maxwell, London, 1962, pp.637-9.
10. Ibid., p.488., p.491
11. Coulton, p.268.
12. Coulton, p.269.
13. Kiralfy, p.491
14. Coulton, p.269.
15. Ibid., p.270
16. Power, p.10. S.M. Stuard "Private and Public Roles" in B. Tierney (ed.), The Middle Ages, Volume II (Knopf, New York, 1983), pp. 206-214, argues that women's freedom generally declined after greater levels of wealth post-eleventh century freed more women from the economic demands of survival. Women henceforth were more frequently immured in increasingly luxurious houses.
17. Ibid., p.11
18. Coulton, p.270-1.19. Gabrieli, Arab Historians, p.77.
20. The full text can be found in Gabrieli, pp. 204-206.
21. Pernoud, p.179.
22. Ibid., pp. 192-3.
23. Arab Historians, p.207.
24. Chronicles of the Crusades, pp. 182-3.
25. This story is confirmed by Ibn al Athir. See Arab Historians, p.207.
26. Ibid., p.218.
Chapter 14:
Rough Chivalry
During the twelfth century, literature claimed that women had become the special objects of the new aristocratic cult of chivalry. Women were now to be adored and served by courteous knights all too prepared to lay down their lives for the favour of their ladies.
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