Eleanor of Aquitaine : A Biography (Women in History)

"Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."—Allene Talmey, Vogue . A compassionate and comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman of enormous intelligence and titanic energy. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she became the key political figure of the 12th century. A stunning biography of one of the most exciting and powerful personalities of all time. This is a compassionate account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, portraying her as a woman of enormous intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age. Duke William IX had always been an ardent lover of women.