Eleanor of Aquitaine: the mother queen of the Middle Ages [First Pegasus books hardcover edition] 9781605986357, 9781605987101, 1605986356

"A monstrous injurer of heaven and earth," as Shakespeare referred to this powerful medieval matriarch, Eleano

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English Pages 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Year 2014

Table of contents :
Aquitaine and the troubadours --
Queen of France --
The crusader --
The divorce --
Duchess of Normandy --
Queen of England --
The Angevin empress --
The court at Poitiers --
Eleanor's sons --
Eleanor's revolt --
The lost years --
Queen mother --
The regent --
Richard's return --
Fontevrault --
The death of Richard --
King John --
The grandmother of Europe --
The murder of Arthur --
The end of the Angevin empire.

Eleanor of Aquitaine: the mother queen of the Middle Ages [First Pegasus books hardcover edition]
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