Author : Amy Kelly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674242548
An account of Queen Eleanor which describes her dramatic life as a queen, her marriages, and her contributions to that period.
Author : Ann Kramer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780792258957
A biography of medieval Europe's greatest queen, who was queen of both France and England.
Author : Wickham Flower
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Aquitaine (France)
ISBN :
Author : Marion Meade
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1991-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101173939
"Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."—Allene Talmey, Vogue.
Author : Elizabeth Chadwick
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402294077
Scandal, politics, sex, triumphs, and tragedies abound in The Summer Queen, the first novel in this stunning trilogy, by New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick Young Eleanor has everything to look forward to as the heiress to the wealthy Aquitaine. But when her beloved father suddenly dies, childhood is over. Sent to Paris and forced to marry Prince Louis VII of France, she barely adjusts before another death catapults them to King and Queen. The first in the Eleanor of Aquitaine Trilogy, The Summer Queen follows Eleanor through the Second Crusade to the end of her marriage to Louis VII. Faced with great scandals, trials, fraught relationships, and forbidden love at every turn, Eleanor seeks the path that will make her queen of two countries and one of the most powerful women in the world. Chadwick's meticulous research portrays the Middle Ages and Eleanor with depth and vivid imagery unparalleled in historical fiction that will keep readers riveted and wanting more. Following the legendary life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, 12th Century Queen of France, and later Queen of England, this trilogy is medieval historical fiction at its most romantic, scandalous, and intriguing. The Eleanor of Aquitaine Trilogy: The Summer Queen (Book 1) The Winter Crown (Book 2) The Autumn Throne (Book 3) Praise for The Summer Queen: "A magnificent woman's story told by a brilliant historical novelist; realistic, emotional, vibrant, exciting and unputdownable."—RT Book Reviews, July Top Pick "The Summer Queen is a fabulous novel based on the most up-to-date and meticulous research. This is historical fiction at its best and I loved every page of it."—For Winter Nights: A bookish blog
Author : Karen Sullivan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0226825841
A reparative reading of stories about medieval queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Much of what we know about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and then Queen of England, we know from recorded rumor—gossip often qualified by the curious phrase “it was said,” or the love songs, ballads, and romances that gossip inspired. While we can mine these stories for evidence about the historical Eleanor, Karen Sullivan invites us to consider, instead, what even the most fantastical of these tales reveals about this queen and life as a twelfth-century noblewoman. She reads the Middle Ages, not to impose our current conceptual categories on its culture, but to expose the conceptual categories medieval women used to make sense of their lives. Along the way, Sullivan paints a fresh portrait of this singular medieval queen and the women who shared her world.
Author : B. Wheeler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1137052627
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.
Author : Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography
ISBN : 1438104162
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.
Author : William W. Kibler
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1477300236
Eleanor of Aquitaine was the wife of two kings, Louis VII of France and Henry II Plantagenet of England, and the mother of two others, Richard the Lionhearted and John Lackland. In her eventful, often stormy life, she not only influenced the course of events in the twelfth century but also encouraged remarkable advances in the literary and fine arts. In this book, experts in five disciplines—history, art history, music, French and English literature—evaluate the influence of Eleanor and her court on history and the arts. Elizabeth A. R. Brown views Eleanor as having played a significant role as parent and politician, but not as patron. Rebecca A. Baltzer takes a new look at the music of the period that was written by and for Eleanor, her court, and her family. Moshé Lazar reexamines her relationship to the courtly-love literature of the period. Eleanor S. Greenhill and Larry M. Ayres reassess her influence in the realm of art history. Rossell Hope Robbins traces the lines extending from the French courtly literature of Eleanor's period down into fourteenth-century Chaucerian England. The essays reflect divergent but generally complementary assessments of this remarkable woman's influence on her own era and on future times as well. This volume is the result of a symposium held at the University of Texas in 1973.
Author : Sara Cockerill
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445646188
'Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this book offers a fresh perspective on one of the most controversial queens in history. Not to be missed.' Tracey Borman
