Queens of the crusades : Eleanor of Aquitaine and her successors

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Queens of the crusades : Eleanor of Aquitaine and her successors

Title remainder

Eleanor of Aquitaine and her successors

Statement of responsibility

Alison Weir

Creator

• Weir, Alison, 1951-

Subject

• Great Britain -- History -- Edward I, 1272-1307
• Great Britain -- History -- Henry II, 1154-1189
• Great Britain -- History -- Henry III, 1216-1272
• Great Britain -- History -- John, 1199-1216
• History
• Plantagenet, House of
• Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?-1204 -- Family

Language

eng

Summary

The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined women often broke through medieval constraints to exercise power and influence, for good and sometimes for ill. Alison Weir's ground-breaking history of the queens of Medieval England now moves into a period of even higher drama, from 1154 to 1291: years of chivalry, dynastic ambition, conflict with the church, baronial wars, and the all-pervading bonds of feudalism. We see events such as the murder of Becket, Magna Carta and the birth of parliaments from a new perspective

Member of

• England's past for everyone paperback

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 942'.031'09252
• 942'.031'09252
• 942'.031'09252
• 942'.031'09252
• 942'.031'09252
• 942'.031'09252
• 942.03109252

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

An England's past for everyone paperback