Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said

Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Karen Sullivan, Professor Karen Sullivan

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-08-16
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226825830

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IntroductionI. The Heiress: Consent in MarriageThe King of FranceThe Demon WifeThe King of EnglandII. The Crusader: Infidelity, Marital and ReligiousThe Prince of AntiochThe Sultan of BabylonA Knight of PoitouIII. The Courtly Lady: Love and PatronageThe TroubadourThe Courts of LoveThe Knight ErrantIV. The Queen Mother: Authority, Maternal and SeigneurialThe Young KingRichard the LionheartKing JohnV. The Old Woman of Fontevraud: The Cloister and the WorldOutside the WallsLiving at the AbbeyDying ad SuccurrendumThe Tomb SculptureVI. The Lioness in Winter: Poetry, Theater, CinemaFair RosamundAlys of FranceConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

“Historians usually exclude gossip and rumor from their sources, or use them with caution. In her new book about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Karen Sullivan does the opposite. She looks at what friends, enemies, troubadours and chroniclers as late as the 16th century had to say, often relaying it with the phrase ut dicebatur, ‘as it was said’. . . . Moving between fact, rumor and outright fiction, Sullivan traces Eleanor’s reputation through five phases of her career: as heiress, crusader, patroness of poets, queen mother and aged affiliate of Fontevraud, the nunnery where she is buried.”