"Eleanor of Aquitaine Reconsidered: The Woman and Her Seasons," in Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady, ed. Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons, 1-54. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003Elizabeth A. R. Brown, “Eleanor of Aquitaine Reconsidered: The Woman and Her Seasons,” in Eleanor ...
Key Facts & Information Early Life Eleanor of Aquitaine was the daughter of William X, Duke of Aquitaine. The details of her birth are relatively unknown. But historians estimated that it was in about 1122 in South France. She was well educated and thoroughly versed in arithmetic, literature...
Eleanor was born in what is now southern France, most likely in the year 1122. She was well educated by her cultured father, William X, Duke of Aquitaine, thoroughly versed in literature, philosophy, and languages and trained to the rigors of court life when she became her father’s heir ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of EnglandShare information with your friend!Alison WeirEleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England. Alison Weir. . 2008 A Weir 被引量: 1发表: 2008年 Cockerill, Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of...
rebel queen. Moreover, Falaise would have been a safer choice than Chinon, which was too close to Eleanor’s own lands, and if she were being held at Falaise, it would have been easy to bring her to Barfleur when she and Henry and his court sailed for England in the summer of 1174...
Eleanor of Aquitaine has long been regarded by medievalists as a great patron of the literary arts at the Angevin court.1 One text frequently associated with her is Benoît de Sainte-Maures Roman de Troie, the roman d’antiquité that widely popularize
The aim of this study is to examine carefully the political role, the means of action, and the power that Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France and England, exercised in her hereditary duchy, Aquitaine. Annals and chronicles alone have previously been scrutinized; the charters that are an ...
O ne source that gives an unequivocally positive image of Eleanor of Aquitaine is the Anglo-Norman verse biography of William Marshal, composed ca. 1226 and edited a century ago as the Histoire de Guillaume le Mar茅chal. 1 Tantalizingly brief as are the Histoires episodes concerning Eleanor, ...
A rare, if not unique, example of a surviving personal possession of the best-known English queen of the twelfth century is the so-called Eleanor of Aquitaine vase, in the Louvre Museum in Paris.1 This pear-shaped vessel of rock crystal (a semi-precious