Eleanor of Aquitaine as It Was Said

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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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9780226825830
Published: August 2023

Number of pages: 304
Width: 152 mm
Height: 229 mm
Depth: 25 mm

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press