by Alison Weir, Jill Tanner
My interest in Eleanor of Aquitaine stems from She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, since Eleanor is one of the women focused on in that book.
What a roller coaster! This a great biography. I still have to mull over the list of sources, but it is wonderful to be able to outline this extraordinary life from 900 years ago. They were murdering thieving bastards and we must never forget that their descendants are still exploiting us today. How...
mp3Blurbification Alison Weir brings all the colour and ever present dangers of Eleanor's world to life. The result is fresh and thoughtful perspective on the energetic eighty-two years of the life of a determined and ambitious woman living with sexism, excesses and violence of a society in which th...
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