Homeland and Holy Land. Crusading families in Champagne and Burgundy 1096-1270

本项目旨在从性别视角探讨十字军东征对中世纪盛期两个十字军家族权力和权威的影响。它的运作基于一个基本假设，即十字军的离开导致了十字军家庭家乡的权力结构发生了变化。本项目旨在分析政治转型过程的各种表现形式、结构结构和动态。它进一步阐述了这些过程对留在家中的男性和女性家庭成员的政治代理的影响。香槟-布卢瓦和勃艮第的十字军家族是这个项目的案例研究。现有资源的相对丰富，不仅可以分析200多年来十字军东征对家庭的影响，还可以研究十字军东征过程中男性和女性家庭成员的作用。由于在没有十字军的情况下，这两个家族的妻子和母亲都被任命为摄政王，因此有必要考虑他们行使权力所依据的资源。此外，还必须审查十字军的地位是否以及以何种方式在家乡的政治领域中被利用，以及家庭成员是否为了巩固和扩大他们的权力和声望而提及它。在研究十字军家族权力和权威结构的变化时，运用皮埃尔·布迪厄的四种资本（经济资本、社会资本、文化资本和象征资本）的理论方法是有益的。在它们的各种相关性中，它们可以被理解为潜在的权力资源，为其实施提供必要的手段，并提供在政治领域获得有利地位的机会。通过对十字军东征过程中权力配置和资源转变的分析，可以深入讨论贵族统治的实践和家庭应对突发事件的策略。利用丰富的原始材料，采用性别视角以及布迪厄启发的理论方法，该项目有望在十字军东征对故土权力和权威的影响方面取得新发现。这项研究的创新潜力在于十字军东征和性别研究的交集。因此，这个项目的目的是为十字军故土书写一部新的政治史，它结合了文化史和性别研究。

The purpose of this project is to explore the impact of the crusades on power and authority of two crusading families of the High Middle Ages from a gender perspective. It operates on the basic assumption that the departure of the crusaders caused shifts in the power structures in the homelands of the crusading families. This project aims to analyze the political transformation processes in their various manifestations, in their structural architecture and in their dynamics. It further expounds upon the effects these processes had on the political agency of the male and female family members who stayed at home.The Crusading families of Champagne-Blois and Burgundy serve as case studies for this project. The relative wealth of existing sources allows to not only to analyze the repercussions of the crusades on the families over a 200 year period, but also to investigate the agency of male and female family members in the course of the crusades. As in both families wives and mothers were appointed as regents in the absence of the crusaders, it is necessary to consider the resources on which their exercise of power was based. Furthermore, it has to be examined, if and in what way the crusaders` status was used on the political field in the homelands and if the family members referred to it in order to consolidate and expand their power and prestige.In studying the changing configurations of power and authority of the crusading families, it has been helpful to work with Pierre Bourdieu`s theoretical approach of the four types of capital (economic, social, cultural and symbolic). In their various correlations, they can be understood as potential resources of power, providing the necessary means for its implementation and giving the opportunity to gain an advantageous position in the political field. The analysis of the transformation of power configurations and resources over the course of the crusades allows for an in depth discussion of the practices of aristocratic lordship and the families` strategies of coping with contingencies.Drawing on the rich body of source material and employing a gender perspective as well as a Bourdieu inspired theoretical approach, this project promises new findings on the impact of the crusades on power and authority in the homelands. This study`s innovative potential lies in the intersection of crusade and gender research. Therefore, the aim of this project is to write a new political history for the homelands of the crusades, which combines cultural history and gender research.