Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen
Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen
Sullivan, Professor Karen
ISBN: | 9780226825830 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Published: | 5 June, 2023 |
Format: | Illustrated |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen
Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen
Sullivan, Professor Karen
A reparative reading of stories about medieval queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Much of what we know about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and then Queen of England, we know from recorded rumor—gossip often qualified by the curious phrase “It was said” or the love songs, ballads, and romances that gossip inspired. While we can mine these stories for evidence about the historical Eleanor, Karen Sullivan invites us to consider, instead, what even the most fantastical of these tales reveal about this queen and about life as a twelfth-century noblewoman. This book paints a fresh portrait of a singular medieval queen and the women who shared her world.
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