02970cim a2200373 i 4500 2806329642 TxAuBib 20250706120000.0 r 260609s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781004035809 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 1004035802 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT13937947 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Weir, Alison, author. Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Successors [Hoopla] / Alison Weir. Unabridged. [United States : W. F. Howes Ltd, 2021. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 28 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Esther Wane. The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined women often broke through medieval constraints to exercise power and influence, for good and sometimes for ill. Alison Weir's ground-breaking history of the queens of medieval England now moves into a period of even higher drama, from 1154 to 1291: years of chivalry, dynastic ambition, conflict with the church, baronial wars, and the all-pervading bonds of feudalism. We see events such as the murder of Becket, Magna Carta and the birth of parliaments from a new perspective. Her narrative begins with the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose marriage to Henry II establishes a dynasty which rules for over three hundred years and creates the most powerful empire in western Christendom - but also sows the seeds for some of the most destructive family conflicts in history and for the collapse, under her son King John, of England's power in Europe. The lives of Eleanor's successors were just as remarkable: Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard the Lionheart, Isabella of Angoulême, queen of John, and Alienor of Provence, queen of Henry III, and finally Eleanor of Castile, the grasping but beloved wife of Edward I.Through the story of these first five Plantagenet queens, Alison Weir provides an enthralling new perspective on a dramatic period of high romance and sometimes low politics, with determined women at its heart. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. History. fast Audiobooks. lcgft Wane, Esther, reader. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13937947?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4337 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/wfh_9781004035809_180.jpeg Cover image