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Eleanor of Aquitaine
by: Regine Pernoud

Used Price: £2.89

Binding: Hardcover
Label: Collins
Manufacturer: Collins
Number Of Pages: 286
Publication Date: 1967
Publisher: Collins
Studio: Collins
Sales Rank: 1364257

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- Perhaps the best reader of Eleanor's mind
Regine Pernoud may have written the best modern historical biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Pernoud was born at Chateau Chinon, which Eleanor and Henry II knew well. The castle at Chinon served as a treasury for Henry, who died there, and for the couple's son, Richard the Lionheart.

Pernoud died in 1998, a noted historian, medievalist and archivist at France's National Archives, where she was responsible for developing the Museum of History of France. She wrote two definitive books about Joan of Arc and others about women closer to Eleanor's time: "Hildegarde de Bingen," "Blanche of Castile" (Eleanor's granddaughter), "Women at the time of the crusades" and "Women in the Days of the Cathedrals."

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