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Eleanor of Aquitaine (l. c. 1122-1204 CE) was one of the most impressive and powerful figures of the High Middle Ages (1000-1300 CE) – male or female – whose influence shaped the politics, art, medieval literature, and perception of women...

Courtly Love (Amour Courtois) refers to an innovative literary genre of poetry of the High Middle Ages (1000-1300 CE) which elevated the position of women in society and established the motifs of the romance genre recognizable in the present...

Effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Fontevraud Abbey, France. Eleanor of Aquitaine (l. c. 1122-1204) was one of the most powerful political figures – male or female – in the Middle Ages as a whole. She was the wife of Louis VII of France (r...

Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215–1275), Illuminated Manuscript Unknown Artist, c. 1300-1308. Taken from the Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England. (British Library, London)

Eleanor of Aquitaine was an impressive and powerful woman during the High Middle Ages. Not only did she own the land of Aquitaine, a large chunk of southwestern France at the time, but during her life she was the Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen...

Join World History Encyclopedia as they chat with medievalist Katherine Pangonis, all about her new book Queens of Jerusalem, the Women Who Dared to Rule. Kelly: Do you want to start off by telling us what your book is all about? Katherine...

Face reconstruction of Eleanor of Aquitane (l. c. 1122-1204) based on her effigy from Fontevraud Abbey. She was Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII of France, the Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife...

The effigies of Henry II of England (r. 1154-1189) and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine (l. c. 1122-1204 CE). Fontevraud Abbey, France.

A pair of statues thought to depict Edward I of England (r. 1272 - 1307 CE) and Eleanor of Castile (1241 - 1290 CE). The statues are part of the outside of the Lincoln Cathedral in England. They may not have originally depicted Edward I and...

An effigy of Eleanor of Castile (1241 - 1290 CE), queen-consort of Edward I of England (r. 1272 - 1307 CE). The effigy is from Eleanor of Castile's tomb in the Lincoln Cathedral in England, which was a contemporary replica of the tomb where...