Eleanor of Aquitaine Lord and Lady

by Wheeler, Bonnie; Parsons, John C.

• ISBN13: 9780312295820
• ISBN10: 0312295820
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

These twenty-one chapters by scholars in various fields provide a fresh context for understanding Eleanor of Aquitaine's multi-faceted career and reputation. Her fame (and infamy) still fascinates us. She is a pivotal figure in the history of the twelfth century because of her lordly inheritance as well as the eminence--and political and diplomatic scope--of her marital rank as queen, first of France and then of England. Some essays in this collection reassess the often fragmentary historical information about her life, while others investigate her reputation in later literary and historical contexts.

Author Biography

Bonnie Wheeler is Director of the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University. She edits the journal Arthuriana as well as Palgrave’s New Middle Ages series.

John C. Parsons is the author of Eleanor of Castile and co-editor of Capetian Women.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Forword	xi
Prologue Lady and Lord: Eleanor of Aquitaine	xiii
John Carmi Parsons
Bonnie Wheeler
Eleanor of Aquitaine Reconsidered: The Woman and Her Seasons	1	(54)
Elizabeth A.R. Brown
Queen Eleanor and Aquitaine, 1137-1189	55	(22)
Marie Hivergneaux
Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Governments of Her Sons Richard and John	77	(20)
Ralph V. Turner
Wife, Widow, and Mother: Some Comparisons between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Noblewomen of the Anglo-Norman and Angevin World	97	(18)
RaGena C. DeAragon
Alianora Regina Anglorum: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Anglo-Norman Predecessors as Queens of England	115	(18)
Lois L. Huneycutt
Queenship: Office, Custom, or Ad Hoc? The Case of Queen Matilda III of England (1135-1152)	133	(26)
Heather J. Tanner
The Birth and Childhood of King John: Some Revisions	159	(18)
Andrew W. Lewis
A Taste of the Feast: Reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine's Female Descendants	177	(36)
Miriam Shadis
Constance Hoffman Berman
The Canon Law of Divorce in the Mid-Twelfth Cenntury: Louis VII c. Eleanor of Aquitaine	213	(10)
James A. Brundage
Eleanor's Divorce from Louis VII: The Uses of Consanquinity	223	(14)
Constance Brittain Bouchard
The Reciprocal Loyalty of Eleanor of Aquitaine and William Marshal	237	(10)
Evelyn Mullally
Scandalizing Desire: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Chroniclers	247	(18)
Peggy McCracken
Damned If She Didn't and Damned When She Did: Bodies, Babies, and Bastards in the Lives of Two Queens of France	265	(36)
John Carmi Parsons
Tempering Scandal: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie	301	(18)
Tamara F. O'Callaghan
What Ever Happened to Eleanor? Reflections of Eleanor of Aquitaine in Wace's Roman de Brut and Lawman's Brut	319	(18)
Fiona Tolhurst
Marie de France, Alienor d'Aquitaine, and the Alien Queen	337	(32)
Margaret Aziza Pappano
The Eleanor of Aquitaine Vase	369	(8)
George T. Beech
The Queen's Choice: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Tombs at Fontevraud	377	(30)
Kathleen Nolan
Fontevraud, Dynasticism, and Eleanor of Aquitaine	407	(16)
Charles T. Wood
Epilogue Eleanor of Aquitaine and a ``Queenly Court''?	423	(18)
Jane Martindale
Contributors	441	(6)
Bibliography	447

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