Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said Special kinds of photography a close friend of Laing

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casting a satirical eye on its claims of political unity

In this fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior

Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said Special kinds of photography a close friend of LaingA reparative reading of stories about medieval queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Much of what we know about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and then Queen of England, we know from recorded rumorgossip often qualified by the curious phrase It was said or the love songs, ballads, and romances that gossip inspired. While we can mine these stories for evidence about the historical Eleanor, Karen Sullivan invites us to consider, instead, what even the most