She was of the devil’s race
Barbara Newman: Eleanor of Aquitaine, 2 November 2023
Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said: Truths and Tales about the Medieval Queen
by Karen Sullivan.
Chicago, 270 pp., £36, August,978 0 226 82583 0 Show More
by Karen Sullivan.
Chicago, 270 pp., £36, August,
“... rumour from their sources, or use them with caution. In her new book about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Karen Sullivan does the opposite. She looks at what friends, enemies, troubadours and chroniclers as late as the 16th century had to say, often relaying it with the phrase ut dicebatur, ‘as it was said’. Eleanor has been many things to many people, from ... ”