New Middle Ages: Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady (Paperback)

B Wheeler; John C Parsons
Palgrave MacMillan Us
 9780230602366
0-230-60236-3

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,.

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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.