"Deconstructing the Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine" Topic
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Tango01 | 26 Oct 2016 4:04 p.m. PST |
"Everything you know about Eleanor of Aquitaine is wrong! Or so says Michael R. Evans, lecturer in medieval history at Central Michigan University. In his book "Inventing Eleanor: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine", he works to destroy the myths that surround the life of Eleanor. He begins by defining the role of medieval queens and how Eleanor fits the image. During her reign as Queen of France, she does appear in charters governing France and her duchy of Aquitaine in tandem with her husband Louis VII. As Queen of England, she also appears in charters and in some chronicles. But she seems to work more alongside her husband Henry II as opposed to autonomously unless she was governing as regent in his absence. She definitely fulfills the customary medieval queen roles of mother, diplomat and intercessor during Henry's reign and those of her sons Richard I and John…" More here link Amicalement Armand |
Jcfrog | 27 Oct 2016 3:21 a.m. PST |
Oh all these guides will have to chznge their stories? Tv will have to say they were wrong ( never happens) Scholars will become monks..' Nonono |
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