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The King And His Court: The Culture Of Royal Power And The Creation Of The Angevin Empire Under Henry Ii, Joseph Jarrell

Master's Theses

Legal codes, literature, history, and violence were necessary aspects of royal power that in conjunction with resources gained from familial inheritance and a fortunate marriage allowed King Henry II to build, govern, and legitimize his rule over the Angevin Empire, as well as attempt to create an Angevin dynasty. Examining these subjects advances ideas about medieval royal culture and its relation to political power and legal power in the twelfth century Angevin Empire.

Historiography has long examined this period as the histories of great men, but recent trends have examined the interplay of power, politics, and gender during the Middle …

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 …

Motherly Devotion And Fatherly Obligation: Eleanor Of Aquitaine's Letters To Pope Celestine Iii, Rachel F. Stapleton

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Do We Know What We Think We Know? Making Assumptions About Eleanor Of Aquitaine, Rágena C. Dearagon

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Le Vase D’Aliénor D’Aquitaine, George Beech

George T. Beech

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The Eleanor Of Aquitaine Vase, George Beech

George T. Beech

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Review Essay: Owen, D. D. R. Eleanor Of Aquitaine: Queen And Legend, Jacqueline Eccles

Quidditas

Owen, D. D. R. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend. Blackwell, Oxford, 1993, first paperback edition, 1996. 224 pp., 262 pp. paperback, illustrations. $54.95/$21.95.

The ‘Eleanor Vase’: Witness To Christian-Muslim Collaboration In Early Twelfth-Century Spain, George Beech

George T. Beech

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The Eleanor Of Aquitaine Vase: Its Origins And History To The Early 12th Century, George Beech

George T. Beech

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Vaas Van Eleanora Onthult Nieuve Geheimen, George Beech

George T. Beech

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The Eleanor Of Aquitaine Vase, William Ix Of Aquitaine, And Muslim Spain, George Beech

George T. Beech

The Eleanor of Aquitaine vase in the Louvre has long been known as one of the rare modern survivals of the famous treasury of the royal abbey of Saint-Denis carefully assembled by Abbot Suger in the mid twelfth century. Suger's own inscription on his elaborate mounting for the vase tells how it came into his possession through Eleanor of Aquitaine's grandfather, William IX of Aquitaine, Eleanor herself, and her first husband, Louis VII of France. But the earlier history of the vase, which is of early medieval, mid-eastern origin is obscure because until now no one has been able to …