ABSTRACT Histories of the Crusades have moved away from characterising the conflict as a civilisational clash between Christianity and Islam, highlighting instead the porousness of religious and geopolitical boundaries in Iberia and the Levant. Yet twelfth-century sources in Old French and Arabic rarely present such a nuanced view outright. Reflecting on the constructedness of the motif of the female Other, I argue that these texts enacted and reinforced a Christian–Muslim dualism in the face of contrary realities of coexistence, fascination and even temptation. Religious difference was constructed and reconstructed through the prism of racial forms, thus facilitating the perpetuation of military conflict. In particular, the motif of the white, sensual Christian woman was used to exclude the enemy in repeated attempts to construct a coherent in-group identity that was, for all that, under constant threat of destabilisation.

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十字军东征的女性：女性他者的建构，1100-1200

摘要 十字军东征的历史已经不再将冲突描述为基督教和伊斯兰教之间的文明冲突，而是强调伊比利亚和黎凡特的宗教和地缘政治边界的漏洞。然而，古法语和阿拉伯语的 12 世纪资料很少直接呈现这种微妙的观点。反思女性他者母题的建构性，我认为这些文本在面对共存、迷恋甚至诱惑的相反现实时制定并强化了基督教-穆斯林二元论。宗教差异是通过种族形式的棱镜构建和重建的，从而促进了军事冲突的长期存在。特别是白的动机，