Eleanor of Aquitaine: A BiographyHawthorn Books, 1977 - 389 pages Biography of the wife of King Henry II of England and mother of Richard I, the Lionheart, and John. |
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... appeared effeminate . The foppery of the easygoing , free - spending Aquitainians never ceased to astonish their contemporaries , and critics in subsequent centuries would still be decrying their flamboyance . " Nowadays , ' scornfully ...
... appeared effeminate . The foppery of the easygoing , free - spending Aquitainians never ceased to astonish their contemporaries , and critics in subsequent centuries would still be decrying their flamboyance . " Nowadays , ' scornfully ...
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... appeared to be ill considered did not seem to trouble her , nor did his destructiveness impinge strongly upon Suger either . When , for instance , Louis finally got around to punishing William of Lezay by personally hacking off his ...
... appeared to be ill considered did not seem to trouble her , nor did his destructiveness impinge strongly upon Suger either . When , for instance , Louis finally got around to punishing William of Lezay by personally hacking off his ...
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... appeared so full of promise that the Plantagenets seemed touched by magic or the hand of a benign God . But Christmas of 1159 at Falaise cannot have been a happy one for Eleanor . For the past month , snow and biting winds had swept the ...
... appeared so full of promise that the Plantagenets seemed touched by magic or the hand of a benign God . But Christmas of 1159 at Falaise cannot have been a happy one for Eleanor . For the past month , snow and biting winds had swept the ...
Contents
The Devil and the Monk | 33 |
Behind the Red Cross | 59 |
To Jerusalem | 81 |
Copyright | |
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