Eleanor Of Aquitaine And The High Middle Ages
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the High Middle Ages
Author | : Nancy Plain |
Publsiher | : Marshall Cavendish |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761418342 |
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A biography of the twelfth-century queen, first of France, then of England, who was the wife of Henry II, also discusses life in the Middle Ages.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Author | : Rachel A. Koestler-Grack |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : 9781438104164 |
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In addition to being queen consort of both Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, she was also the mother of Richard I the Lion-Heart and John of England.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Author | : B. Wheeler,John C. Parsons |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137052629 |
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Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender-power relations relegated her to the position of Lady in relation to her Lordly husbands. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor's life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor's multifaceted career. A valuable collection on the greatest heiress of the medieval period.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Author | : Desmond Seward |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781605987101 |
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“A monstrous injurer of heaven and earth,” as Shakespeare referred to this powerful medieval matriarch, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s reign as England’s stormiest and most ambitious queen has never been matched.As the greatest heiress in Europe, she was in turn Queen of France and Queen of England; among her sons were Richard the Lionheart and King John. A magnificent independent ruler in her own right, she lost her power when she married Louis VII of France. She received neither influence nor fame by her second marriage to King Henry II, who jailed her for fifteen years for conspiring and supporting their son’s claim to the throne. Her husband was succeeded by their son, King Richard the Lionheart, who immediately released his mother from prison. Eleanor then acted as Regent while Richard launched the Third Crusade.Her loveliness and glamour, her throwing-off of the constraints that shackled women of the twelfth century, and her very real gifts as a politician and ruler make Eleanor’s story one of the most colorful of the High Middle Ages.
The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Author | : Marcus Graham Bull,Catherine Léglu |
Publsiher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843831147 |
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A revisionist approach to Eleanor of Aquitaine and the political, social, cultural and religious world in which she lived. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) is one of the most important and well-known figures of the Middle Ages; she exercised a huge influence on both the course of history, and on the cultural life, of the time. The essays in this collection use her as a point of entry into wider-ranging discussions of the literary, social, political and religious milieux into which she was born, and to which she contributed; they address many of the misconceptions that have grown around both Eleanor herself and the medieval Midi in general, and open up new areas of debate. Topics explored include the work of the troubadours and the importance to them of patronage; perceptions of southern France and itsinhabitants by outsiders; the early history of the Templars in southern France; cultural contacts between the Midi and other parts of the Latin world; the uses of ritual and historical myth in the expression of political power; and attitudes towards women. Contributors: Catherine Léglu, Marcus Bull, Richard W. Barber, Daniel F. Callahan, Malcolm Barber, John B. Gillingham, Linda Paterson, Ruth Harvey, Daniel Power, Laurent Macé, William Paden.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Author | : Ralph V. Turner |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2009-06-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300159899 |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine’s extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two sons who rose to take the English throne—Richard the Lionheart and John. Renowned for her beauty, hungry for power, headstrong, and unconventional, Eleanor traveled on crusades, acted as regent for Henry II and later for Richard, incited rebellion, endured a fifteen-year imprisonment, and as an elderly widow still wielded political power with energy and enthusiasm. This gripping biography is the definitive account of the most important queen of the Middle Ages. Ralph Turner, a leading historian of the twelfth century, strips away the myths that have accumulated around Eleanor—the “black legend” of her sexual appetite, for example—and challenges the accounts that relegate her to the shadows of the kings she married and bore. Turner focuses on a wealth of primary sources, including a collection of Eleanor’s own documents not previously accessible to scholars, and portrays a woman who sought control of her own destiny in the face of forceful resistance. A queen of unparalleled appeal, Eleanor of Aquitaine retains her power to fascinate even 800 years after her death.
Inventing Eleanor
Author | : Michael R. Evans |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781441146038 |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), queen of France and England and mother of two kings, has often been described as one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages. Yet her real achievements have been embellished--and even obscured--by myths that have grown up over eight centuries. This process began in her own lifetime, as chroniclers reported rumours of her scandalous conduct on crusade, and has continued ever since. She has been variously viewed as an adulterous queen, a monstrous mother and a jealous murderess, but also as a patron of literature, champion of courtly love and proto-feminist defender of women's rights. Inventing Eleanor interrogates the myths that have grown up around the figure of Eleanor of Aquitaine and investigates how and why historians and artists have invented an Eleanor who is very different from the 12th-century queen. The book first considers the medieval primary sources and then proceeds to trace the post-medieval development of the image of Eleanor, from demonic queen to feminist icon, in historiography and the broader culture.
Queen Eleanor
Author | : Polly Schoyer Brooks |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0395981395 |
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A biography of the twelfth-century queen, first of France, then of England, who was the wife of Henry II and mother of several notable sons, including Richard the Lionhearted.