Eleanor of Aquitaine, as it was said  -  Karen Sullivan

As it was said Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen

KORTE INHOUD

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 reveals about this queen a...
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2023 Uitgever: The University of Chicago Press 304 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0226825833 ISBN-13: 9780226825830