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Product Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; 1st Paberback Edition edition (December 13, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0300178204
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300178203
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Up-to-date but tedious
By medievalnerd on July 24, 2012
Format: Paperback
We've needed a new English-language biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine for some time now. Kelly's beautifully written and engaging work is dated in its choice and interpretation of sources, and Owen's more recent biography indulges in far too much speculation.

Unfortunately, while Turner has clearly done his research, exploiting newly-available documentary sources such as charters as well as the familiar old chronicles, and while he is far more judicious in his interpretations of the material than Kelly or Owen, his book needed a great deal of editing that it never received. Every chapter contains unnecessary repetition (how many times do we need to be told who Ralph de Faye or Geoffrey du Loroux was, or circle back to observations already given about a particular event?). These flaws are surprising given that the book is published by Yale UP. The peer-reviewers and editor should have recognized the problems and insisted that they be rectified before taking the book into production.

I disagree with another of the reviewers, who implies that a 150-page biography is all that would really be possible, given the dearth of evidence. Jean Flori has published an excellent biography in French that extends to 442 pages (not counting the notes, bibliography, or index), all without undo repetition or fattening.

If you don't read French, then Turner's book really is the best thing available, but let's hope a good press soon decides to publish an English translation of Flori's book.
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28 of 33 people found the following review helpful
An unfortunate book about a fascinating woman
By Adrian Brooks on July 4, 2009
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Ralph Turner begins this 300 page book by stating that little is known about the fascinating Eleanor of Acquitaine. He then compensates for the dearth of data by repeating most of his major facts as many as twenty times. I've never read anything where I felt more bludgeoned. It's unfortunate because, if the author had been less concerned with s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-g his text out to traditional book length and had written a crisp 150 page biography, Turner's work would have been far better, and less controlling. If you're determined to learn about the only woman who was ever queen of both France and England, proceed as you will but be advised: this is a numbing read.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Meticulous and Thorough
By Andrew Rittenburg on November 3, 2009
Format: Hardcover
A wonderful book if you are looking for an in-depth study of the former Queen of France and England. While Turner's study is not as accessible as the famous Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings by Amy Kelly, it presents it's research as much more matter of fact. This account does not romanticize it's subject as most other Eleanor reviews have, but instead posits a fair picture of a woman who is completely remarkable without the embellishment.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Good Eleanoria
By Mark Richard Beaulieu on July 30, 2011
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As a writer on the deep life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, this sits very high on my stack. It gives a good bit more thought to the biography and is a more up to date and scholarly than the ones that first brought my interest (Weir-the researcher, Kelly), yet it has the full scope. Highly recommended for devotees in search of the true Alienor.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Detailed but repetitive
By Rocky Wood on January 6, 2014
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Very good book, strips away the myth and deals only with what the evidence suggests (a rare thing indeed in books about Eleanor). Great detail, however, the author has a terrible habit of repeating himself, which grated on me
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It could have been so much better!
By NM Cactus on August 15, 2015
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Like many other readers have noted, the information is very good, but the book is so poorly written/edited, especially in the first chapters, that I was aghast. I don't understand how the publisher could let that happen. That said, Eleanor is a fascinating character, and this may be the only source available that attempts an even-handed analysis of her life and reign. For the amateur and professional historian, it is probably a must.
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Amazing woman
By CLAUDIA G. on January 4, 2014
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This is one of my all time favorite books. This was such an interesting, amazing woman, especially for the time in which she lived.
I didn't want the book to end.
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great book
By Jan Ellis on April 8, 2014
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again why do you require so many words for the customer review

I really like the story of Eleanor, the book is well written
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