Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0312295820 ISBN 13: 9780312295820

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Riassunto

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, 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.

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L'autore:

Bonnie Wheeler teaches at Southern Methodist University, USA where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She has edited and co-edited fourteen books, among them Listening to Heloise and Heloise and the Paraclete (forthcoming). She was founding editor of the journal Arthuriana and is series editor for two Palgrave Macmillan book series, The New Middle Ages and Arthurian and Courtly Cultures.

Contenuti:

Introduction; J.Carmi Parsons & B.Wheeler
Eleanor of Aquitaine Reconsidered: The Woman and her Seasons; E.A.R.Brown
Queen Eleanor and Aquitaine, 1137-1189; M.Hivergneaux
Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Reigns of her Sons Richard and John; R.V.Turner
Wife, Widow and Mother: Some Comparisons between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Noblewomen of the Anglo-Norman and Angevin World; R.C.DeAragon
Alianora Regina Anglorum: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Predecessors as Queens of England; L. L.Huneycutt
Queenship: Office, Custom or Ad Hoc? The Case of Queen Matilda of England (1135-1152); H.J.Tanner
The Birth and Childhood of King John: Some Revisions; A.W.Lewis
A Taste of the Feast: Re-considering Eleanor of Aquitaine's Female Descendants; C.Hoffman Berman & M.Shadis
The Canon Law of Divorce from Louis VII: The Uses of Consanguinity; C.Brittain Bouchard
The Reciprocal Loyalty of Eleanor of Aquitaine and William Marshal; E.Mullally
Scandalizing Desire: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Chroniclers; P.McCracken
Damned if She Didn't and Damned When She Did: Bodies, Babies and Bastards in the Lives of Two Queens of France; J.Carmi Parsons
Tempering Scandal: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie; T.F.O'Callaghan
What Ever Happened to Eleanor? Reflections of Eleanor of Aquitaine in Wace's Roman de Brut and Lawman's Brut; F.Tolhurst
Marie de France, Alienor d'Aquitaine, and the Alien Queen; M.A.Pappano
The Eleanor of Aquitaine Vase; G.T.Beech
The Queen's Choice: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Tombs at Fontevraud; K.Nolan
Fontevraud, Dynasticism, and Eleanor of Aquitaine; C.T. Wood
Epilogue: Eleanor of Aquitaine and a 'queenly court'?; J.Martindale

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312295820
• ISBN 13: 9780312295820
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 512
• Redattore: Wheeler Bonnie, Parsons John Carmi