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Eleanor of Aquitaine

Lord and Lady

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Bonnie Wheeler

    1. Southern Methodist University, USA

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  2. John Carmi Parsons
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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Eleanor of Aquitaine Reconsidered: The Woman and Her Seasons

    • Elizabeth A. R. Brown
    Pages 1-54

  3. Queen Eleanor and Aquitaine, 1137–1189

    • Marie Hivergneaux
    Pages 55-76

  4. Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Governments of Her Sons Richard and John

    • Ralph V. Turner
    Pages 77-95

  5. Wife, Widow, and Mother: Some Comparisons between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Noblewomen of the Anglo-Norman and Angevin World

    • RáGena C. DeAragon
    Pages 97-113

  6. Alianora Regina Anglorum: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Anglo-Norman Predecessors as Queens of England

    • Lois L. Huneycutt
    Pages 115-132

  7. Queenship: Office, Custom, or Ad Hoc? The Case of Queen Matilda III of England (1135–1152)

    • Heather J. Tanner
    Pages 133-158

  8. The Birth and Childhood of King John: Some Revisions

    • Andrew W. Lewis
    Pages 159-175

  9. A Taste of the Feast: Reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Female Descendants

    • Miriam Shadis, Constance Hoffman Berman
    Pages 177-211

  10. The Canon Law of Divorce in the Mid-Twelfth Century: Louis VII c. Eleanor of Aquitaine

    • James A. Brundage
    Pages 213-221

  11. Eleanor’s Divorce from Louis VII: The Uses of Consanguinity

    • Constance Brittain Bouchard
    Pages 223-235

  12. The Reciprocal Loyalty of Eleanor of Aquitaine and William Marshal

    • Evelyn Mullally
    Pages 237-245

  13. Scandalizing Desire: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Chroniclers

    • Peggy McCracken
    Pages 247-263

  14. Damned If She Didn’t and Damned When She Did: Bodies, Babies, and Bastards in the Lives of Two Queens of France

    • John Carmi Parsons
    Pages 265-299

  15. Tempering Scandal: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie

    • Tamara F. O’Callaghan
    Pages 301-317

  16. What Ever Happened to Eleanor? Reflections of Eleanor of Aquitaine in Wace’s Roman de Brut and Lawman’s Brut

    • Fiona Tolhurst
    Pages 319-336

  17. Marie de France, Aliénor d’Aquitaine, and the Alien Queen

    • Margaret Aziza Pappano
    Pages 337-368

  18. The Eleanor of Aquitaine Vase

    • George T. Beech
    Pages 369-376

  19. The Queen’s Choice: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Tombs at Fontevraud

    • Kathleen Nolan
    Pages 377-405

  20. Fontevraud, Dynasticism, and Eleanor of Aquitaine

    • Charles T. Wood
    Pages 407-422
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Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender-power relations relegated her to the position of Lady in relation to her Lordly husbands. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor's life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor's multifaceted career. A valuable collection on the greatest heiress of the medieval period.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Southern Methodist University, USA

    Bonnie Wheeler

About the editors

Bonnie Wheeler teaches at Southern Methodist University, USA where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She has edited and co-edited fourteen books, among them Listening to Heloise and Heloise and the Paraclete (forthcoming). She was founding editor of the journal Arthuriana and is series editor for two Palgrave Macmillan book series, The New Middle Ages and Arthurian and Courtly Cultures.

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