{"product_id":"eleanor-of-aquitaine-as-it-was-said-9780226825830","title":"Eleanor of Aquitaine as It Was Said","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Historians​ usually exclude gossip and rumor from their sources, or use them with caution. In her new book about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Karen Sullivan does the opposite. She looks at what friends, enemies, troubadours and chroniclers as late as the 16th century had to say, often relaying it with the phrase \u003ci\u003eut dicebatur\u003c\/i\u003e, ‘as it was said’. . . . Moving between fact, rumor and outright fiction, Sullivan traces Eleanor’s reputation through five phases of her career: as heiress, crusader, patroness of poets, queen mother and aged affiliate of Fontevraud, the nunnery where she is buried.” -- Barbara Newman * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating must-read for all enthusiasts of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Sullivan conducts a survey of Eleanor’s life via a detailed focus on the main historical controversies. The author does not ‘pick a side,’ but instead asks all of us to revisit our preconceptions of this most inspiring medieval queen. The book manages the neat trick of providing much food for thought while being a highly enjoyable read. I look forward to rereading it already!\" -- Sara Cockerill, author of 'Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires'\u003cbr\u003e“This evocative book, both solidly documented and full of original ideas, renews studies on Eleanor of Aquitaine. Reading medieval and modern texts on the queen with finesse and respect, Sullivan takes us into the mentality of their authors, whose interests, sensibilities, and values are at once so close to and yet so far from ours. Piercing the silence that surrounds women of the twelfth century, this book opens the door to a culture of gender so often forgotten.” -- Martin Aurell, University of Poitiers\u003cbr\u003e“A remarkable portrait of Eleanor as the subject of a thousand conversations, this book gives us the queen who haunted the listeners of troubadour songs, shone in the biographies of famous knights, and burned from the acid pens of her enemies. As she weaves these disparate strands together, Sullivan blazes a new trail in the study of celebrated figures in the medieval past, challenging us to rethink assumptions about what is useful about the forces that shaped medieval narratives and how we might read them.” -- Nicholas Paul, Fordham University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e I. The Heiress: Consent in Marriage\u003cbr\u003e          The King of France\u003cbr\u003e          The Demon Wife\u003cbr\u003e          The King of England\u003cbr\u003e II. The Crusader: Infidelity, Marital and Religious\u003cbr\u003e          The Prince of Antioch\u003cbr\u003e          The Sultan of Babylon\u003cbr\u003e          A Knight of Poitou\u003cbr\u003e III. The Courtly Lady: Love and Patronage\u003cbr\u003e          The Troubadour\u003cbr\u003e          The Courts of Love\u003cbr\u003e          The Knight Errant\u003cbr\u003e IV. The Queen Mother: Authority, Maternal and Seigneurial\u003cbr\u003e          The Young King\u003cbr\u003e          Richard the Lionheart\u003cbr\u003e          King John\u003cbr\u003e V. The Old Woman of Fontevraud: The Cloister and the World\u003cbr\u003e          Outside the Walls\u003cbr\u003e          Living at the Abbey\u003cbr\u003e          Dying ad Succurrendum\u003cbr\u003e          The Tomb Sculpture\u003cbr\u003e VI. The Lioness in Winter: Poetry, Theater, Cinema\u003cbr\u003e          Fair Rosamund\u003cbr\u003e          Alys of France\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864242499927,"sku":"9780226825830","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226825830.jpg?v=1722271034","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eleanor-of-aquitaine-as-it-was-said-9780226825830","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}