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A reparative reading of stories about medieval queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Much of what we know about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and then Queen of England, we know from recorded rumor—gossip often qualified by the curious phrase "it was said," or the love songs, ballads, and romances that gossip inspired. While we can mine these stories for evidence about the historical Eleanor, Karen Sullivan invites us to consider, instead, what even the most fantastical of these tales reveals about this queen and life as a twelfth-century noblewoman. She reads the Middle Ages, not to impose our current conceptual categories on its culture, but to expose the conceptual categories medieval women used to make sense of their lives. Along the way, Sullivan paints a fresh portrait of this singular medieval queen and the women who shared her world.
Contents
Introduction
I. The Heiress: Consent in Marriage
The King of France
The Demon Wife
The King of England
II. The Crusader: Infidelity, Marital and Religious
The Prince of Antioch
The Sultan of Babylon
A Knight of Poitou
III. The Courtly Lady: Love and Patronage
The Troubadour
The Courts of Love
The Knight Errant
IV. The Queen Mother: Authority, Maternal and Seigneurial
The Young King
Richard the Lionheart
King John
V. The Old Woman of Fontevraud: The Cloister and the World
Outside the Walls
Living at the Abbey
Dying ad Succurrendum
The Tomb Sculpture
VI. The Lioness in Winter: Poetry, Theater, Cinema
Fair Rosamund
Alys of France
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
