Eleanor of Aquitaine Lord and Lady

by Wheeler, Bonnie; Parsons, John C.

• ISBN13: 9780230602366
• ISBN10: 0230602363
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• 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.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Lady and Lord

Eleanor of Aquitaine Reconsidered: The Woman and Her Seasons

Queen Eleanor and Aquitaine, 1137-1189

Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Reigns of her Sons Richard and John

Wife, Widow and Mother: Some Comparisons between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Noblewomen of the Anglo-Norman and Angevin World

Alianora Regina Anglorum: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Predecessors as Queens of England

Queenship: Office, Custom or Ad Hoc? The Case of Queen Matilda of England (1135-1152)

The Birth and Childhood of King John: Some Revisions

A Taste of the Feast: Re-considering Eleanor of Aquitaine's Female Descendants

Berman The Canon Law of Divorce in the Mid-Twelfth Century: Louis VII v. Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor's Divorce from Louis VII: The Uses of Consanguinity

The Reciprocal Loyalty of Eleanor of

Scandalizing Desire: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Chroniclers

Damned if She Didn't and Damned When She Did: Bodies, Babies and Bastards in the Lives of Two Queens of France

Tempering Scandal: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie

What Ever Happened to Eleanor? Reflections of Eleanor of Aquitaine in Wace's Roman de Brut and Lawman's Brut

Marie de France, Alienor d'Aquitaine, and the Alien Queen

The Eleanor of Aquitaine Vase

The Queen's Choice: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Tombs at Fontevraud

Fontevraud, Dynasticism, and Eleanor of Aquitaine

Epilogue: Eleanor of Aquitaine and a 'Queenly Court'?

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