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Queen Eleanor Of Aquitaine: Political Motherhood In The Middle Ages, Sherry Lynn Mason
Queen Eleanor Of Aquitaine: Political Motherhood In The Middle Ages, Sherry Lynn Mason
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Historians have frequently written on the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) although few have studied her role as an affectionate, devoted, dutiful mother. This work is an attempt to address this situation through the study of available primary sources on Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Even though she was Queen of France (1137-1152) and England (1137-1189) she was considered less important than any man of her class because of the societal norms of the time. In reality she played an important part in the Angevin Empire for the power and influence she wielded in her own right. She used this …