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Author : Margaret Howell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0631227393
It provides an unusually intimate and coherent picture of a woman who combined a remarkable aptitude for politics with a strong family commitment and warm friendships.
Author : Darren Baker
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526747525
This account of two strong medieval women and their relationship “thoroughly engrosses you in a story hundreds of years past”(Seattle Book Review). Born in 1223, Eleanor of Provence has come to England at the age of twelve to marry the king, Henry III. He’s sixteen years older, but was a boy when he ascended the throne. He’s a kind, sensitive sort whose only personal attachments to women so far have been to his three sisters. The youngest of those sisters is called Eleanor too. She was only nine when, for political reasons, her first marriage took place, but she’s already a chaste twenty-year-old widow when the new queen arrives in 1236. Soon, this Eleanor will marry the rising star of her brother’s court, a French parvenu named Simon de Montfort, thus wedding the fates of these four people together in an England about to undergo some of the most profound changes in its history. The Two Eleanors of Henry III is a tale that spans decades, with loyalty to family and principles at stake, in a land where foreigners are subject to intense scrutiny and jealousy. The relationship between these two sisters-in-law, close but ultimately doomed, reflects not just the turbulence and tragedy of their times, but also the brilliance and splendor.
Author : J. P. Reedman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153750682X
Eleanor of Provence, child bride, loving wife, loving mother of Edward Longshanks. Eleanor, hated queen, despised for her spendthrift ways, pelted by the mob. Eleanor, foe of the unnerving, unsettling warrior Simon de Montfort and his barons, who threaten her husband's reign...and life Eleanor, taking vows in a convent in Amesbury, where she vanished from history, even her grave lost in time....
Author : Nancy Goldstone
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101202173
For fans of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser, acclaimed author Nancy Goldstone’s thrilling history of the royal daughters who succeeded in ruling—and shaping—thirteenth-century Europe Set against the backdrop of the thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, troubadors, knights and monarchs, Four Queens is the story of four provocative sisters—Marguerite, Eleanor, Sanchia, and Beatrice of Provence—who rose from near obscurity to become the most coveted and powerful women in Europe. Each sister in this extraordinary family was beautiful, cultured, and accomplished but what made these women so remarkable was that each became queen of a principal European power—France, England, Germany and Sicily. During their reigns, they exercised considerable political authority, raised armies, intervened diplomatically and helped redraw the map of Europe. Theirs is a drama of courage, sagacity and ambition that re-examines the concept of leadership in the Middle Ages.
Author : Peter Makin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520335615
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
Author : Sophie Perinot
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101577288
Patient, perfect, and used to being first, Marguerite becomes Queen of France. But Louis IX is a religious zealot who denies himself the love and companionship his wife craves. Can she borrow enough of her sister's boldness to grasp her chance for happiness in a forbidden love? Passionate, strong-willed, and stubborn, Eleanor becomes Queen of England. Henry III is a good man, but not a good king. Can Eleanor stop competing with her sister and value what she has, or will she let it slip away? The Sister Queens is historical fiction at its most compelling, and is an unforgettable first novel.
Author : Marcus Graham Bull,Catherine Léglu
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1843831147
A revisionist approach to Eleanor of Aquitaine and the political, social, cultural and religious world in which she lived. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) is one of the most important and well-known figures of the Middle Ages; she exercised a huge influence on both the course of history, and on the cultural life, of the time. The essays in this collection use her as a point of entry into wider-ranging discussions of the literary, social, political and religious milieux into which she was born, and to which she contributed; they address many of the misconceptions that have grown around both Eleanor herself and the medieval Midi in general, and open up new areas of debate. Topics explored include the work of the troubadours and the importance to them of patronage; perceptions of southern France and itsinhabitants by outsiders; the early history of the Templars in southern France; cultural contacts between the Midi and other parts of the Latin world; the uses of ritual and historical myth in the expression of political power; and attitudes towards women. Contributors: Catherine Léglu, Marcus Bull, Richard W. Barber, Daniel F. Callahan, Malcolm Barber, John B. Gillingham, Linda Paterson, Ruth Harvey, Daniel Power, Laurent Macé, William Paden.
Author : Sara Cockerill
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445636054
The untold story of the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I
Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399126562
When King Henry of England falls in love with and marries Eleanor, daughter of the Count of Provence, England erupts with threatened revolt against the beautiful foreigner who has become its Queen
Author : Ralph V. Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0300178204
This gripping biography is the definitive account of the most important queen of the Middle Ages. Ralph Turner, a leading historian of the twelfth century, strips away the myths that have accumulated around Eleanor and challenges the accounts that relegate her to the shadows of the kings she married.
Author : Louise J. Wilkinson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441182197
As sister of Henry III and aunt of the future Edward I, Eleanor de Montfort was at the heart of the bloody conflict between the Crown and the English barons. At Lewes in 1264 Simon de Montfort captured the king and secured control of royal government. A woman of fiery nature, Eleanor worked tirelessly to support her husband's cause. She assumed responsibility for the care of the royal prisoners and she regularly dispatched luxurious gifts to Henry III and the Lord Edward. But the family's political fortunes were shattered at the battle of Evesham in August 1265 where Simon de Montfort was killed. The newly-widowed Eleanor rose to her role as matriarch of her family, sending her surviving sons - and the family treasure - overseas to France, negotiating the surrender of Dover Castle and securing her own safe departure from the realm. The last ten years of her life were spent in the Dominican convent at Montargis. Drawing on chronicles, letters and public records this book reconstructs the narrative of Eleanor's remarkable life.
Author : John Carmi Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002603308
Eleanor of Castile thus becomes a study in the construction of the imagery of one woman's power and her society's perception of that imagery. Parsons also considers the evolution of the queen's posthumous legend as her reputation was fashioned and refashioned in response to changing opinions on women and power.
Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446427040
The public pay a price for personal excess in this captivating and dramatic historical novel by multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy. Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory. 'It's hard to better Jean Plaidy ... both elegant and exciting as she steers a stylish path through the feuding Plantaganets' -- Daily Mirror 'Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama' -- New York Times 'Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting' -- Observer 'Fascinating' -- ***** Reader review 'Couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'Grabs you from the first page and doesn't let go' -- ***** Reader review 'Another first class read from Ms. Plaidy!' -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************************************************** Marguerite, eldest daughter of the Count of Provence, had married a king of France - and now her sister Eleanor is determined to make just as grand a match. Good fortune and wily cunning bring her Henry of England. A good and generous husband but a weak king, he rules a nation that still remembers his cruel and foolish father, King John. As Henry showers gifts on his new bride, his extravagance forces him to levy ever greater taxation on the land, and the spectre of revolt soon looms against him. For Simon de Montfort, the adventurer who will give England its first true parliament, the house of destiny is at hand...
Author : Andrew Spencer,Carl Watkins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275700
Essays looking at the links between England and Europe in the long thirteenth century.
Author : Michael R. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441141354
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), queen of France and England and mother of two kings, has often been described as one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages. Yet her real achievements have been embellished--and even obscured--by myths that have grown up over eight centuries. This process began in her own lifetime, as chroniclers reported rumours of her scandalous conduct on crusade, and has continued ever since. She has been variously viewed as an adulterous queen, a monstrous mother and a jealous murderess, but also as a patron of literature, champion of courtly love and proto-feminist defender of women's rights. Inventing Eleanor interrogates the myths that have grown up around the figure of Eleanor of Aquitaine and investigates how and why historians and artists have invented an Eleanor who is very different from the 12th-century queen. The book first considers the medieval primary sources and then proceeds to trace the post-medieval development of the image of Eleanor, from demonic queen to feminist icon, in historiography and the broader culture.