Susan B. Edgington was formerly a senior lecturer at Huntingdonshire Regional College She has written widely on the crusades and has edited and translated the Antiochene Wars and the Historia Iherosolimitana of Albert of Aachen. Sarah Lambert is a lecturer at Goldsmith's College, University of London and the author of several articles on issues of gender in crusade history.

"As the first major attempt at a gendered approach to the crusades, it will be an essential text for all those interested in the study of the crusades and the Latin East, gender history, and the cultural contexts of medieval warfare." Bollettino del CIRT