Now, In Our Time, on Radio 4 is one of my favourite programmes to listen on the wireless, and today's was fascinating.
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most powerful woman in the Crusader states in the century after the First Crusade. Melisende (1105-61) was born and raised after the mainly Frankish crusaders had taken Jerusalem from the Fatimids, and her father was King of Jerusalem. She was married to Fulk from Anjou, on the understanding they would rule together, and for 30 years she vied with him and then their son as they struggled to consolidate their Frankish state in the Holy Land.
With, Natasha Hodgson, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Nottingham Trent University, Katherine Lewis, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield, and, Danielle Park, Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London
Producer: Simon Tillotson"
Picture; the coronation of Fulk with Melisende, from Livre d'Eracles, Guillaume de Tyr (1130?-1186)
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, from the sleeve notes
*Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bg2y
With, Natasha Hodgson, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Nottingham Trent University, Katherine Lewis, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield, and, Danielle Park, Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London
Producer: Simon Tillotson"
Picture; the coronation of Fulk with Melisende, from Livre d'Eracles, Guillaume de Tyr (1130?-1186)
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, from the sleeve notes
*Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bg2y
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