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Eleanor of Aquitaine
. Ed(S): Wheeler, Bonnie; Parsons, John Carmi
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Paperback. These essays provide a fresh context for understanding Eleanor of Aquitaine's multi-faceted career and reputation. 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. Editor(s): Wheeler, Bonnie; Parsons, John Carmi. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 535 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 34. Weight in Grams: 710.
Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender-power relations relegated her to the position of Lady in relation to her Lordly husbands. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor's life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor's multifaceted career. A valuable collection on the greatest heiress of the medieval period.
Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender-power relations relegated her to the position of Lady in relation to her Lordly husbands. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor's life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor's multifaceted career. A valuable collection on the greatest heiress of the medieval period.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
535
Condition
New
Series
New Middle Ages
Number of Pages
506
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230602366
SKU
V9780230602366
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About . Ed(S): Wheeler, Bonnie; Parsons, John Carmi
Bonnie Wheeler teaches at Southern Methodist University, USA where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She has edited and co-edited fourteen books, among them Listening to Heloise and Heloise and the Paraclete (forthcoming). She was founding editor of the journal Arthuriana and is series editor for two Palgrave Macmillan book series, The New Middle Ages and Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. ... Read more
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