Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography

by Marion Meade

Overview

"Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."—Allene Talmey, Vogue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101173930
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/01/1991
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Marion Meade is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? and Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Victoria Woodhull, and Madame Blavatsky, as well as two novels about medieval France.

Table of Contents

The Family of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
A Child in the Land of Love
The Devil and the Monk
Behind the Red Cross
To Jerusalem
The Unwanted Crown
Stalking the Planta Genesta
Queen of the English
Betrayals
The Court of Love
The Wheel of Fortune Turns
Autumn and After
The Last Battle
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Index