Eleanor of Aquitaine

Lord and Lady

506 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: The New Middle Ages
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780230602366
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.08.2008
• Größe: 21.6 x 14 cm
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Herausgegeben von: B. Wheeler