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Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen
Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen
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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 reveal about this queen and about life as a twelfth-century noblewoman. This book paints a fresh portrait of a singular medieval queen and the women who shared her world.
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 reveal about this queen and about life as a twelfth-century noblewoman. This book paints a fresh portrait of a singular medieval queen and the women who shared her world.
Authors: Karen Sullivan
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780226825830
Publication date: 20231019
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