Opening book details…
Can I read Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (Harvard Paperbacks) on EtoBox?
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (Harvard Paperbacks) by Amy R. Kelly [Kelly, Amy Ruth] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (Harvard Paperbacks) about?
The story of that amazingly influential and still somewhat mysterious woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has the dramatic interest of a novel. She was at the very center of the rich culture and clashing politics of the twelfth century. Richest marriage prize of the Middle Ages, she was Queen of France as the wife of Louis VII, and went with him on the exciting and disastrous Second Crusade. Inspiration of troubadours and trouveres, she played a large part in rendering fashionable the Courts of Love and in establishing the whole courtly tradition of medieval times.Amy Kelly’s story of the queen’s long life—the first modern biography—brings together more authentic information about her than has ever been assembled before and reveals in Eleanor a greatness of vision, an intelligence, and a political sagacity that have been missed by those who have dwelt on her caprice and frivolity. It also brings to life the whole period in whose every aspect Eleanor and her four kings were so intimately and influentially involved. Miss Kelly tells Eleanor’s absorbing story as it has long waited to be told: with verve and style and a sense of the quality of life in those times, and yet with a scrupulous ca
Who reads Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (Harvard Paperbacks)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Amy R. Kelly [Kelly, Amy Ruth]
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674242548
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (737 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14