Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings Author:Amy Kelly This account of Queen Eleanor and her century is offered as a study of individuals who set their stamp upon the events of their time, rather than as a study of developing systems of politics, economics, or jurisprudence. While it is hoped that it is conformable to what is known of institutions, it explores a different area, using many materials ... more »that the historian of institutions must perforce, for reasons of brevity and clarity, leave aside, yet which are a part of the tradition that is history in the wide sense.
The materials used are in general "contemporary" sources (those of the twelfth century, expanded by a decade or two at the end), and they include chronicles, biographies, literature - secular and ecclesiastic - epistles, and commentaries, in which the reader may see brought together in one account what the century says about itself.
Copyright 1950 by Harvard University; first Vintage edition 1957, second printing 1958, third printing 1959.« less