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| Named Person: | Eleanor, of Aquitaine Queen consort of Henry II King of England; Louis, King of France; Henry, King of England; Aliénor, d'Aquitaine reine épouse d'Henri II roi d'Angleterre; Louis, roi de France; Henri, roi d'Angleterre |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ffiona Swabey |
| ISBN: | 0313325235 9780313325236 |
| OCLC Number: | 54424975 |
| Description: | xliii, 167 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Series foreword -- Advisory board -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Maps and genealogical tables -- ch. 1. Narrative historical overview -- ch. 2. The twelfth century awakening -- ch. 3. Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France : marriage, divorce, and remarriage -- ch. 4. Eleanor, Queen of England : motherhood, imprisonment, and widowhood -- ch. 5. The troubadours : origins, themes, and demise -- ch. 6. Courtly love -- ch. 7. Conclusion : What is she reading? -- Biographies -- Peter Abelard -- Saint Thomas Becket -- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux -- Blanche of Castile -- Saint Francis of Assisi -- Henry II, King of England -- Henry, the "Young KIng" -- Hildegard von Bingen -- John "Lackland," King of England -- John of Salisbury -- Louis VII, King of France -- Empress Matilda -- Philip Augustus II, King of France -- Richard I, the "Lionheart," King of England -- Abbé Suger -- William, IX Duke of Aquitaine, VII Count of Poitou -- William Marshall, earl of Pembroke -- Fontevraud Abbey -- The legend of Tristan and Iseult -- Primary documents -- 1 and 2. Two chroniclers comment on Eleanor's removal from Antioch -- 3. Merlin's prophecy from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae -- 4. Richard the Potevin laments Eleanor's removal to England -- 5 and 6. Two letters dating from Eleanor's old age -- 7. Letter to Pope Celestine III erroneously attributed to Eleanor -- 8, 9, and 10. Three troubadour songs -- Guilhem de Peiteu -- Bernart de Ventadorn -- Arnaut Daniel -- 11 and 12. Two letters from the correspondence of Heloise and Abelard -- 13 and 14. Two excerpts from De Amore by Andreas Capellanus -- 15. Excerpt from Chrétien de Troyes's romance The Knight of the Cart (Lancelot) -- Annotated bibliography -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world |
| Responsibility: | ffiona Swabey. |
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