Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-506). Originally published: 2002.
Contents:
Eleanor of Aquitaine reconsidered: the woman and her seasons / Elizabeth A.R. Brown -- Queen Eleanor and Aquitaine, 1137-1189 / Marie Hivergneaux -- Eleanor of Aquitaine in the governments of her sons Richard and John / Ralph V. Turner -- Wife, widow, and mother: some comparisons between Eleanor of Aquitaine and noblewoman of the Anglo-Norman and Angevin world / RaGena C. DeAragon -- Alianora Regina Anglorum: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Anglo-Norman predecessors as queens of England / Lois L. Huneycutt -- Queenship: office, custom, or ad hoc? The case of Queen Matilda III of England (1135-1152) / Heather J. Tanner -- The birth and childhood of King John: some revisions / Andrew W. Lewis -- A taste of the feast: reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine's female descendants / Miriam Shadis, Constance Hoffman Berman -- The canon law of divorce in the mid-twelfth century: Louis VII c. Eleanor of Aquitaine / James A. Brundage -- Eleanor's divorce from Louis VII: the uses of consanguinity / Constance Brittain Bouchard -- The reciprocal loyalty of Eleanor of Aquitaine and William Marshal / Evelyn Mullally -- Scandalizing desire: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the chroniclers / Peggy McCracken -- Damned if she didn't and damned when she did: bodies, babies, and bastards in the lives of two queens of France / John Carmi Parsons -- Tempering scandal: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Benoit de Sainte-Maure's roman de Troie / Tamara F. O'Callaghan -- What ever happened to Eleanor? Reflections of Eleanor of Aquitaine in Wace's Roman de brut and Lawman's Brut / Fiona Tolhurst -- Marie de France, Alienor d'Aquitaine, and the alien queen / Margaret Aziza Pappano -- The Eleanor of Aquitaine vase / George T. Beech -- The queen's choice: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the tombs at Fontevraud / Kathleen Nolan -- Fontevraud, dynasticism, and Eleanor of Aquitaine / Charles T. Wood -- Epilogue: Eleanor of Aquitaine and a "queenly court"? / Jane Martindale.
Summary:
These twenty-one chapters by scholars in carious 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 diplomatical scope--of her marital rank as queen, first of France and then of England. Some essays in this collection reassess the often framentary historical informaiin about her life, while others investigate her reputation in later literary and historical contexts.
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