Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady.(Book Review)

Albion | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons, eds. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xxix, 506. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-29582-0.

According to its editors, the strength of this collection of essays on the life and career of Eleanor of Aquitaine lies in its transdisciplinary approach, which allows for the emergence of a much more nuanced portrait of this complex woman. It seeks, in other words, to expand what we know about her by considering aspects of the world in which she lived as well as aspects of her own life. While there is a certain amount ...

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