Queens of the Crusades
  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473523326
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496
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Queens of the Crusades

Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors

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18 Jan 2022
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5 Nov 2020
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The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the subject of Alison's most successful book.


'Stunning... Weir has brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it - it has all the drama and suspense of a novel' Tracy Borman
Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle - the Plantagenet queens broke through medieval constraints to exercise power and influence, for good and sometimes for ill.

Beginning with the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine whose marriage to Henry II sows the seeds for some of the most destructive family conflicts in history and ending with Eleanor of Castile, the grasping but beloved wife of Edward I, Alison Weir's ground-breaking history of the queens of medieval England provides an enthralling new perspective on a dramatic period of high romance and sometimes low politics, with determined women at its heart.

  • Published: 5 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473523326
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496
Categories:

About the author

Alison Weir

Alison Weir is one of Britain’s top-selling historians. She is the author of numerous works of history and historical fiction, specialising in the medieval and Tudor periods. Her bestselling history books include The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Elizabeth of York and The Lost Tudor Princess. Her novels include Innocent Traitor, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession. She is an Honorary Life Patron of Historic Royal Palaces and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She lives and works in Surrey.

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Also by Alison Weir

Queens at War
Queens of the Age of Chivalry
A Tudor Christmas
Queens of the Conquest
The Lost Tudor Princess
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
The Marriage Game
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Praise for Queens of the Crusades

[A] historian who has achieved popularity without sacrificing scholarly precision... She writes with the dramatic intensity of a novelist.

Gerard DeGroot, The Times

The book that I most anticipated this year was Alison Weir's Queens of the Crusades... Told with all of Weir's characteristic verve and exceptional eye for detail, this book should find its way into every history lover's Christmas stocking.

Tracy Borman, BBC History Magazine *Books of the Year 2020*

Stunning... [Weir has] brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it - it has all the drama and suspense of a novel.

Tracy Borman

As in previous books, the exceedingly knowledgeable author's prodigious research is impressive. Another treat for Weir fans.

Kirkus Reviews

This meticulous group biography of the first five Plantagenet queens of England brushes away long-standing legends. Weir skillfully documents the political, religious, and cultural issues of medieval England and France.

Publishers Weekly

Fascinating.

Tracy Borman, Daily Express, *Books of the Year*
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