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Алиенора Аквитанская. Непокорная королева
Author: Жан Флори
Year: 2012
Number of pages: 432
Format: FB2, | RTF
File size: 11,0 MB
Year: 2012
Number of pages: 432
Format: FB2, | RTF
File size: 11,0 MB
Alienora of Aquitaine (1124-1204) - one of the most famous women of the Western European Middle Ages. The story of her life resembles a burlesque novel, where, against the background of political intrigues and the emerging courtly culture, the motives of love, hatred, profit and thirst for adventure intertwined. The granddaughter and heiress of the first troubadour and most powerful ruler of Southern France, the Duke of Aquitaine Guillaume IX, Alienora inherited the rebellious disposition of her great ancestor. In an era when power belonged to men, she went against established traditions and never agreed to be nothing more than a wife, even kings: Alienora sought to choose her own husband, manage her lands, actively participated in political events; it is no coincidence that one of the brightest peaks of her life was her participation in the Second Crusade. Having been the wife of the French king Louis VII, she married the future English sovereign Henry II...
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