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Eleanor of Aquitaine：queen of France, queen of England

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Main Authors: Turner Ralph V.
Published: Yale University Press,
Publisher Address: New Haven [Conn.] London
Publication Dates: c2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Louis > VII, > (King of France,) > ca. 1120-1180
Eleanor > (of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England,) > 1122?-1204.
Henry > II, > (King of England,) > 1133-1189
Eleonore > (von Aquitanien.)
Queens > France
Queens > Great Britain
France > History > Louis VII, 1137-1180.
Great Britain > History > Henry II, 1154-1189
Frankrijk.
Engeland.
Carrier Form: xi, 395 p., [16] p. of plates: ill., geneal. tables, maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780300119114 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300119119 (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: K835
CLC: K835.607
Call Number: K835.607/E381T
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-382) and index.
List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Acknowledgments -- Genealogies -- Introduction: Searching for a "truthful image" of Eleanor of Aquitaine -- 1: Growing up in the ducal court of Aquitaine, 1124-1137 -- 2: Bride to a king, queen of the French, 1137-1145 -- 3: Adventures and misadventures on the second crusade, 1145-1149 -- 4: Husband lost, a husband gained, 1149-1154 -- 5: Once more a queen and mother: England, 1154-1168 -- 6: Queen's work: regent for an absentee king, 1155-1168 -- 7: Taste of power in Poitou, 1168-1173 -- 8: Queen's discontent and her sons' thwarted ambitions, 1173-1174 -- 9: Captive queen's lost years, 1174-1189 -- 10: Queen-mother: Richard's reign, 1189-1199 -- 11: Securing the Plantagenet legacy: John's reign, 1199-1204 -- 12: Overwhelmed by a black legend -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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