false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255703385m/111220.jpg 111220 10 Combining the pace and descriptive quality of a novel with the authority of a textbook, Alison Weir's study of the revered and reviled Eleanor of Aquitaine should be valuable to anyone with an interest in medieval European history. Wife of Louis VII of France and subsequently of Henry II of England, and mother of Richard "the Lion-Hearted," Eleanor played a prominent part in the politics of the 12th century. The author of a number of other books on the medieval period (<I>Life of Elizabeth I</I>, <I>The Children of Henry VIII</I>), Weir brings all the color and ever-present dangers of Eleanor's world to life, filling the text with absorbing background detail and revelatory contemporary anecdotes. She is concerned throughout to make critical analysis of the primary sources, the later myths about Eleanor, and other modern biographies. This results in a fresh and thoughtful perspective on the energetic life of a determined and ambitious woman living with the sexism, excesses, and violence of a society in which the word of a single man could condemn thousands to death. <I>Eleanor of Aquitaine</I> is a vivacious but scholarly book with extensive notes and references, giving an objective and rich account of the staunch Eleanor, her feuding family and her complex and unstable world. <I>--Karen Tiley, Amazon.co.uk</I> 977136 1999 Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle) total:1006|5:244|4:393|3:296|2:65|1:8| 1006 3818 1766 132 111220 0345434870 9780345434876 929 118 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255703385m/111220.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111220.Eleanor_of_Aquitaine_A_Life 4 3 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 20:56:26 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 21:34:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 654898 0712673172 9780712673174 18 5 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176796322m/654898.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/654898.Eleanor_of_Aquitaine_By_the_Wrath_of_God_Queen_of_England 4 2 false Sun Aug 05 12:20:54 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 00:56:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 111220 0345434870 9780345434876 929 118 3.80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255703385m/111220.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111220.Eleanor_of_Aquitaine_A_Life 3 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Oct 11 19:34:07 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 19:40:24 -0700 2007
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