Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend.

History Today | July 1, 1994| | Copyright

Blackwell viii + 256 pp 25[pounds]

Both these books deal with elusive subjects: Eleanor of Aquitaine, despite her reputation, has left few tangible records, while the history of medieval |Occitania', as Dr Paterson is careful to call it, lacks contemporary chronicles on a par with those for England or France. Eleanor of Aquitaine has yet to find her biographer: Amy Kelly's romantic Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings is stirring stuff, with a tinge of Hollywood epic about it, while Regine Pernoud's Alienor d'Aquitaine (1965) is much more soundly based on ...

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