Eleanor of Aquitaine

This biography follows Eleanor from her inheritance of Aquitaine through her marriage to Louis VII of France, the Second Crusade, the annulment of that marriage, and her subsequent union with Henry II of England. Weir traces Eleanor's role in the politics of the Angevin lands, the rebellions of her sons, her years of confinement, and her later activity as queen-mother during the reigns of Richard I and John. The book uses chronicles and charters to reconstruct a twelfth-century life at the centre of two kingdoms. It is a narrative of dynasty, land, and a woman exercising power within feudal marriage and inheritance.

Bound in blocked gold metallic buckram, cover and spine blocked with image in maroon and black. Black slipcase.