ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE

Pimlico, London, 2000, reprint.  ISBN 0-712-67317-2.  Trade soft cover, 444 pages including Notes on the Chief Sources, Bibliography, Notes and References, Genealogical Tables, and Index.  Good plus; wraps show edge and cover wear, creases and reading creases, some age spots and light soil on outer page block.  Binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages; black & white photo plate section.  ‘Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial.  She was beautiful, intelligent and willful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance. … Eleanor married in turn Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, and was the mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John.  She lived to be eighty-two, but it was only in old age that she triumphed over the adversities and tragedies of her earlier years band became virtual ruler of England.’ (from rear wrap)