Eleanor of Aquitaine was a biography about... wait for it.... Eleanor of Aquitaine. For those who don't remember their Western Civ classed, Eleanor was the Duchess of Aquitaine in the late 1100s and early 1200s. She was a Queen of France and a Queen of England, and mother to two Kings of England as well-King Richard I (the Lionheart) and King John (signer of the Magna Carta).
Biographies are hard to review, so all I can really say is that I found the book quite interesting. I have read several fictionalized books about Eleanor, so it was nice to see what was fact and what was fiction. Eleanor was a fascinating women, and lived a very full life during a time few women had that ability.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Alison Weir
10/73
2 comments:
I'm not so certain you can trust that it was all fact... biographies from that far back often contain a lot of fiction to filling the blank spots. Hell, modern biographies usually contain some falsehoods. The farther back you go, the more fiction is mixed in to flesh out a full biography.
Actually, I forgot to mention that the author mentioned that very fact-that we really didn't know a great deal about Eleanor's life, or even what she looked like. At certain parts of the book, she even said that we can only make educated guesses as to where Eleanor was and what she was doing based on what documents exist and what they say.
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