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Was there ever a ruler, man or woman, quite as fascinating as Eleanor of Aquitaine? The ruler of France's largest kingdom from the age of 15, Eleanor (1122- 1204) was renowned for beauty, intelligence, and the thoughtful application of power. Her marriage to her second husband, Henry Plantagenet of Normandy, brought her to the English throne; the birth of their sons John Lackland and Richard I Lionheart forever changed the face of medieval European history. Always at the center of her world, Eleanor remains a fascinating figure even today, and Amy Kelly captures the whirlwind of her life in this entrancing biography.
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The story of that amazingly influential and still somewhat mysterious woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has the dramatic interest of a novel. She was at the very center of the rich culture and clashing politics of the twelfth century. Richest marriage prize of the Middle Ages, she was Queen of France as the wife of Louis VII, and went with him on the exciting and disastrous Second Crusade. Inspiration of troubadours and trouvères, she played a large part in rendering fashionable the Courts of Love and in establishing the whole courtly tradition of medieval times. Divorced from Louis, she married Henry Plantagenet, who became Henry II of England. Her resources and resourcefulness helped Henry win his throne, she was involved in the conflict over Thomas Becket, and, after Henry's death, she handled the affairs of the Angevin empire with a sagacity that brought her the trust and confidence of popes and kings and emperors.
Having been first a Capet and then a Plantagenet, Queen Eleanor was the central figure in the bitter rivalry between those houses for the control of their continental domains--a rivalry that excited the whole period: after Henry's death, her sons, Richard Coeur-de-Lion and John "Lackland" (of Magna Charta fame), fiercely pursued the feud up to and even beyond the end of the century. But the dynastic struggle of the period was accompanied by other stirrings: the intellectual revolt, the struggle between church and state, the secularization of literature and other arts, the rise of the distinctive urban culture of the great cities. Eleanor was concerned with all the movements, closely connected with all the personages; and she knew every city from London and Paris to Byzantium, Jerusalem, and Rome. Miss Kelly's story of the queen's long life--the first modern biography brings together more authentic information about her than has ever been assembled before and reveals in Eleanor a greatness of vision, an intelligence, and a political sagacity that have been missed by those who have dwelt on her caprice and frivolity. It also brings to life the whole period in whose every aspect Eleanor and her four kings were so intimately and influentially involved. Miss Kelly tells Eleanor's absorbing story as it has long waited to be told--with verve and style and a sense of the quality of life in those times, and yet with a scrupulous care for the historic facts.
Customer Reviews:
Eleanor of Acquitaine and the Four Kings.......2007-10-11
This book is a superior piece of literature, carefully researched, beautifully written, and more exciting than any novel.
Amy Kelly, pioneer of modern Eleanor research.......2007-05-16
Don't let an Eleanor of Aquitaine scholar fool you! The fact is that "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings" has been an important source book for authors who have written on the subject of this extraordinary woman during the past six decades. This book may have been the most important component of Amy Ruth Kelly's academic work. She was a Harvard scholar, close to retirement when her magnum opus went to press circa 1950.
A careful reading shows that much of Ms. Kelly's text is original in the sense that she was diligent in exploring manuscripts and early histories, borrowing relatively little from her contemporary historians. She pioneered modern Eleanor scholarship.
The author was the product of a more genteel age, a fact which her style betrays. It is curiously antique in places, but easy to read and to follow. For example, she introduces the word "Paraclete" without explanation: she herself needed no introduction to the school of Peter Abelard. Her book includes a number of dated curiosities: for example she refers to the Turkish port from which Eleanor sailed to Antioch as Satalia, rather than the modern day Antalya.
Several modern scholars think Ms. Kelly got the Court of Ladies wrong. I disagree. I believe that she got it partly right. In fact the true nature of Eleanor's Court of Ladies at Poitiers is still the subject of debate. Personally, I believe that the late Claude Marks, the author of "Pilgrims, heretics, and lovers: A medieval journey" came close to reasonable truth on this topic.
"Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings" is informative. Modern historians have added a good many facts to the life and times of Eleanor of Aquitaine since Ms. Kelly published her book a lifetime ago, but she left us a record that feels true to life, entertaining and informative.
Robert Fripp, Author of ...
"Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a turbulent life: Eleanor of Aquitaine"
'Courts of Love,' Double Crowns and Fateful Politics.......2006-02-26
This book is an indispensable link in the chain of events that constitute French mediaeval history. With Eleanor's marriage to Louis VII in 1137 her dowry, the unruly realm of Aquitaine, in theory merged with the Royal Domains of the Capetians, but remained outside Royal control. In 1152 Louis, in need of a male heir, found Eleanor a willing partner in divorce. Outwitting her former husband the King of France, Eleanor's second marriage to the formidable Henry of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, in reality augmented Aquitaine into the Angevin Empire. Further still, the Conquerors crown of 1066 would find another conquerors head, that of Henry II, the Norman dynasty of England is eclipsed by yet another Duke of Normandy, Henry of Anjou, Eleanor becomes queen for a second time. With fateful consequences this union would involve the heavy tread of a Hundred Years War in pursuit of an inheritance. This too would be the last time a Duke of Normandy overawes the King of France in an ambiguous dual capacity as King of England.
Amy Kelly beautifully catches the reflected fragments to this elusive personality through the world of Kings in which she was a part. By following the biography of this extraordinary woman we meet all the major protagonists of the age, including a Byzantine Emperor from her involvement in the Second Crusade, to Archbishop Beckett, as well as those bequeathed to history by the Queen herself, namely King Richard I, the Lion Heart and King John of England. Kelly clarifies a dynastic web of deception, internecine war and greed, bringing warmth to grim events in the persona of the Queen and her troubadour court of high romance that was so much a part of her lineage from the south.
For those whose appetite has been tantalized, this book forms a distinguished trio in conjunction with; The Normans, by David Crouch; Eleanor, by Kelly, and A Distant Mirror, by Barbara Tuchman which brilliantly covers the Hundred Years War. Taken together they form a rich and scholarly narrative on the Middle Ages and of French and English history in particular. Taken on its own, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings remains a classic!
Call the ASPCA! she's abusing her Thesaurus!.......2005-09-20
great book if you want to debouch from a parvis and clinch your dialectic with the syllogism. As she writes in Chapter I: "Exercises like these make learning lovable to the wayfaring intelligence of women."
This from someone at Wellesley College? I don't care if she wrote it in 1950!
That's all. I must return to "the gross epithalamia of the people....."
History As It Should Be Written.......2004-12-19
For over half a century, readers have turned to Amy Kelly's book for an exciting look at a broad swath of European history. From 1137 through her death in 1204, Eleanor was a principal player on the stage of history. She was married to two kings -- the mediocre Louis VII and the hot-tempered Henry II -- and mother to two other kings -- Richard the Lion-Hearted and King John the chicken-hearted. She had travelled to Constantinople, Jerusalem, Germany, and all around England and France.
Among the characters that pass through this history are St Bernard of Clairvaux, the Abbot Segur, the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus, Saladin, King Philip Augustus of France, Thomas Becket, Popes Celestine III and Innocent III, and hundreds of nobles, knights, clerics, and others. This history is a pageant, but one played for keeps. Excommunications and interdicts were bandied about as frequently as harsh words; and every fight had an ecclesiastical dimension.
Is your wife getting long in the tooth? Just get the clergy to declare that the marriage should be annulled because of consanguinity (which consanguinity was of course known by the kings who married their cousins). Just as he is about to wed Ingeborg of Denmark, Philip Augustus has second thoughts; and the outraged Dane betook herself to a nunnery and began a years-long letter-writing campaign that finally got the attention of Innocent III.
After the Norman Conquest of 1066, the Normans held both England and a large part of France. The Capetian kings vainly tried to take pieces of France back from the Angevin kings Henry II and Richard, but only under John Lackland (appropriately named) did they begin to have any measure of success.
Where was Eleanor in all this? To her 83rd year, she was a player. Although the chronicles tended to follow the kings, Eleanor was never far away. While Richard was being held for ransom in Germany, it was she who held the country together while John vainly attempted to forge an alliance with the enemy of his dynasty. Although Kelly's work is scholarly, she keeps her sources in unobtrusive endnotes that do not interrupt the flow of the text. If you want to read a history that is a real page-turner, I heartily recommend this book.
One of the main things I learned from the book is that Richard the Lion-Hearted was not the great hero of the English as he has been portrayed. For one thing, he bankrupted the country twice, first with his crusade and then with his ransome, and he didn't even speak a word of English. And he preferred to spend his time in Normandy.
Customer Reviews:
Amy Kelly, the pioneer of modern Eleanor research.......2007-06-15
Don't let an Eleanor of Aquitaine scholar fool you! The fact is that just about every author who has written about this extraordinary woman during the past six decades has used "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings" as a source. This book may have been the most important component of Amy Ruth Kelly's academic work. She was a scholar, close to retirement when her magnum opus went to press in 1950.
A careful reading shows that much of Ms. Kelly's text is original in the sense that she was diligent in exploring manuscripts and early histories. She pioneered modern Eleanor scholarship.
The author was the product of a more genteel age, a fact which her style betrays. It is curiously antique in places, and on rare occasions she assumes a level of knowledge many readers may lack. For example, she introduces the word "Paraclete" without explanation: she herself needed no introduction to the school of Peter Abelard. Her book includes a number of dated curiosities: for example she refers to the Turkish port from which Eleanor sailed to Antioch as Satalia, rather than the modern day Antalya.
Several modern scholars think Ms. Kelly got the Court of Ladies wrong. I disagree. I believe that she got it partly right. In fact the true nature of Eleanor's Court of Ladies at Poitiers is still the subject of debate. Personally, I believe that the late Claude Marks, the author of "Pilgrims, heretics, and lovers: A medieval journey" came close to reasonable truth on this topic. And Marks' estimate is not far from Kelly's.
"Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings" is informative. Modern historians have added a good many facts to the life and times of Eleanor of Aquitaine since Ms. Kelly published her book a lifetime ago, but she left us a record that feels true to life, entertaining and informative.
Robert Fripp, Author of ...
"Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a turbulent life: Eleanor of Aquitaine"
Customer Reviews:
Amy Kelly, pioneer of modern Eleanor research.......2007-06-15
Don't let an Eleanor of Aquitaine scholar fool you! The fact is that just about any author who has written about this extraordinary woman during the past six decades has used "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings" as a source. This book may have been the most important component of Amy Ruth Kelly's academic work. She was a scholar, close to retirement when her magnum opus went to press circa 1950.
A careful reading shows that much of Ms. Kelly's text is original in the sense that she was diligent in exploring manuscripts and early histories, borrowing relatively little from her contemporary historians. She pioneered modern Eleanor scholarship.
The author was the product of a more genteel age, a fact which her style betrays. It is curiously antique in places, and on rare occasions she assumes a level of knowledge many readers may lack. For example, she introduces the word "Paraclete" without explanation: she herself needed no introduction to the school of Peter Abelard. Her book includes a number of dated curiosities: for example she refers to the Turkish port from which Eleanor sailed to Antioch as Satalia, rather than the modern day Antalya.
Several modern scholars think Ms. Kelly got the Court of Ladies wrong. I disagree. I believe that she got it partly right. In fact the true nature of Eleanor's Court of Ladies at Poitiers is still the subject of debate. Personally, I believe that the late Claude Marks, the author of "Pilgrims, heretics, and lovers: A medieval journey" came close to reasonable truth on this topic. And Marks' estimate is not far from Kelly's.
"Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings" is informative. Modern historians have added a good many facts to the life and times of Eleanor of Aquitaine since Ms. Kelly published her book a lifetime ago, but she left us a record that feels true to life, entertaining and informative.
Robert Fripp, Author of ...
"Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a turbulent life: Eleanor of Aquitaine"
Customer Reviews:
A Good Introduction, But A Bit Hard to Follow.......2002-09-14
"Cavaliers and Roundheads" is the story of the English Civil War of 1642-49 between King Charles I and Parliament which lead to the beheading of Charles on January 30, 1649 and the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector.
The book is well written and tends to present the story chronologically. The alignment of forces and shifting military advantages are explained. The ultimate arrest and trial of the King, followed by his execution, bring the war to its conclusion. The ascendency of Cromwell was brief and his reputation swiftly tarnished until his rehabilitation in the 19th century. The restoration of King Charles II lead to the veneration of Charles I as a martyr King.
The book is, largely, limited to a factual reporting of the events of the war. The explanation of the causes and results of the war are brief. There is little treatment of any underlying social causes or effects of the dispute between King and Parliament.
My rating of this work is fairly low because of the difficulty I had in following all the Dukes and Lords involved in the story. Perhaps a reader with a greater familiarity with this era of English history would find this work to be more interesting. I would rate it as a fair introduction to this period of history. It would probably better serve a reader a more prepared for an in depth study of the era.
A master storyteller...........2001-07-07
A master storyteller for a wonderful story! Christopher Hibbert is perhaps the most renowned British historian in this day and age, and this book is no exception to his mastery. The storyline of the English civil war lets the reader view both sides subjectively...sometimes becoming disgusted or enamored with both. This is an A+ book, and a great amount of fun to read.
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Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union's collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia's geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked it into a dead-end path to economic ruin.
Shattering a number of myths that have long persisted in the West and in Russia, The Siberian Curse explains why Russia's greatest assets—its gigantic size and Siberia's natural resources—are now the source of one of its greatest weaknesses. For seventy years, driven by ideological zeal and the imperative to colonize and industrialize its vast frontiers, communist planners forced people to live in Siberia. They did this in true totalitarian fashion by using the GULAG prison system and slave labor to build huge factories and million-person cities to support them.
Today, tens of millions of people and thousands of large-scale industrial enterprises languish in the cold and distant places communist planners put them—not where market forces or free choice would have placed them. Russian leaders still believe that an industrialized Siberia is the key to Russia's prosperity. As a result, the country is burdened by the ever-increasing costs of subsidizing economic activity in some of the most forbidding places on the planet. Russia pays a steep price for continuing this folly—it wastes the very resources it needs to recover from the ravages of communism.
Hill and Gaddy contend that Russia's future prosperity requires that it finally throw off the shackles of its Soviet past by shrinking Siberia's cities. Only by facilitating the relocation of population to western Russia, closer to Europe and its markets, can Russia achieve sustainable economic growth.
Unfortunately for Russia, there is no historical precedent for shrinking cities on the scale that will be required. Downsizing Siberia will be a costly and wrenching process. But there is no alternative. Russia cannot afford to keep the cities left by communist planners out in the cold.
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If you only read three books about Russia, this has to be one........2006-01-18
- - Most Westerners with an interest in Russia know their dilemma is palpable. This country with the largest land mass has great natural resources in oil, gas, gold, nickel, diamonds, forest products, and on and on. The Russians I know are generous to acquaintances, have strong family ties and love their country. Contrast this with across the board pay far less than much of the worlds employed with similar skills and education. Compared with the West, tuberculosis and HIV Aids are close to epidemic.
- - In a readable and systematic critique, Hill and Gaddy carefully describe Russia's geography and the overpopulation crisis in Asiatic Russia, the coldest of the world's locations. The 39 million Russians living east of the Urals are a tremendous net financial drain on the Russian economy. With clarity, the authors arrive at the solution of relocating over half of this population to warmer, western parts of Russia.
- - The authors also present the enormous problems with such a solution. Russia's leadership barely recognizes the problem and continues to urge population development in Siberia and the Far East of Russia. Moscow is Europe's largest city and the Moscow region is the most prosperous in Russia, but local politicians successfully resist all immigration. All other places in western Russia combined do not have possible employment for even a small fraction of the people the book would relocate.
- - The Siberian Curse has good argument examples included and laid out so they do not detract from the main text. Any reader should also be aware that the Notes provide much additional understanding.
- - Of the many books on Russia I have read in the past six years, only one other provides so much valuable information for the time invested. That is Anne Applebaum's - GULAG: a history - , Doubleday, 2003. When you are ready to understand more about Russia, read these two books.
In a sense, this book is not about Siberia.......2005-03-15
In many ways, this book is more about the growth of cities and the forces that have governed their growth in Western countries. And also about the example of Siberia and the old Soviet Union, and the folly that erupts when market forces are thrown to the cold Siberian wind. If this book were just about Siberia being cold, it would not have taken up 240 pages.
Fiona Hill goes over how cities develop and grow in context with the location, as well as providing many statistics that allow you to contrast the growth of the Soviet Union with other countries such as the United States and Canada (the latter of which Hill argues is a model for how Russia should be developed.) The final process that Hill illustrates is the massive and excruciating downsizing process that she believes Russia must go through to correct the misdevelopment of the Soviet era.
This is a highly recommended book, and it is of interest if one finds city development to be of the slightest interest, even if one does not have corresponding interest in Russia and Siberia.
It's as though the US tried to re-create Cleveland in Alaska.......2004-03-01
The authors' main theme is that the Soviets' determination to create cities in Siberia has created an albatross that will hold back Russian economic development forever. Most of the cities of Siberia have no economic justification for existence, and by any standard, should not have been created in the first place. Even where there are large mineral or oil deposits, the cost of maintaining huge cities in the Arctic outweighs any possible profit. Getting these people to move to warmer parts of Russia would be beneficial all round, but is difficult due to housing shortages in the more desirable parts of Russia. The authors argue that Russians need to abandon their notion that settlement of Siberia is the destiny of the Russian people and will make Russia an economic powerhouse.
If there is a flaw here, it is that the authors keep hammering away at their main point, creating a repetitive tone toward the end of the book. Throughout the book there are short articles from various periodicals in gray boxes, which serve to illustrate the authors' theoretical arguments.
Never Trust A Real-Estate Agent.......2004-02-27
by John Dolan:
Every year or so, another silly theory comes into vogue among Western "Russia hands," that estimable body of scientific prognosticators not one of whom managed to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union until three or four years after it had occurred.
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Think of all those nineteenth-century editorial cartoons sneering at Seward for buying Alaska from the Russians. That too was worthless, frozen land, fit only for bears. Anybody want to sell it back at, say, 100 times the price? Didn't think so.
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Their arguments are often the most naive sort of social-science bluff, as when they use something called "Zipf's Law" to demonstrate that Russia's cities are of the wrong sizes and in the wrong place. I'm not familiar with the work of the unluckily-named Zipf, but if anyone out there knows him, please tell him for me that if Hill and Gaddy's paraphrase is an accurate summary of his theory, he's an ass.
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It's somewhat surprising to see an argument so totally illogical praised as "highly original" and "a welcome and important contribution" to Russian studies--until you see who's praising it.
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Sachs is, of course, the paradigm of the incompetent, sleazy Western consultant who did so much to destroy Russia in the 90s. Pipes is a mad reactionary who has been shrilly whitewashing serfdom and vilifying the Soviets for what seems like centuries. And Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's East Bloc specialist, is a Russophobe from way, way back, a man who makes Pavel Felgenhauer look like a Rodina deputy.
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And it's very easy to see why The Siberian Curse serves their ends. By blaming bad Soviet planners for Russia's fall, this book helps get a sleazebag like Sachs get off the hook, confirms Pipes' one endlessly repeated argument that Soviet = evil, and endorses Brzezinski's conviction that the further east you go, the more Russian and evil everything becomes.
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Another blurb-writer, Niall Ferguson of Oxford, states with naive clarity the real reason this book is doing well: "Those still wondering why market reforms have achieved only limited success in Russia since the collapse of Communism cannot afford to overlook this timely and original book."
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In other words: Thank you for your book/ It lets us off the hook. The West cannot be blamed for the "limited success" of the "market reforms" carried out by Sachs and accomplices. Turns out the Soviets did it after all-from beyond the grave, as it were.
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The Cost of Cold.......2004-01-03
Everyone knows that Siberia is a very cold place. This book explains how the coldness of Siberia presents one of the greatest impediments to future development of the Russian economy. Under the best of circumstances, developing strategies for dealing with a large, unbearably cold place like Siberia presents tremendous challenges. The Soviets made the situation much worse by ignoring the cost of the cold. With an ample supply of forced labor provided by the GULAG prison system and a total disregard for the profitability of industrial endeavors, the Soviets put people and resources in places that made no sense economically. It is tempting to think of Siberia as a treasure chest containing vast quantities of natural resources just waiting to be exploited. Certainly the effort required to access these resources now represents an investment that will yield great rewards in the future. Hill and Gaddy expose the fallacy of this point of view using quantitative economic methods to support their detailed arguments. The cost of supporting people and factories in extremely cold places currently outweighs any benefit to the Russian economy. This book is written in a style that is both scholarly and accessible to the average reader. Not only does the book provide insight into why the Soviet economy failed, it provides clear-cut policy recommendations for economically sound ways that Russia can deal with the Siberian challenge now and in the future. According to economic considerations, Siberia is now enormously over populated and the people currently living there should be encouraged to move to warmer places. The treasures of Siberia should be kept in cold storage until technologies are developed to extract these resources profitably, without damaging the Siberian ecology.
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Author: Cristina Chuen
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Everywhere you look in Tasmania there are pictures, symbols, signs and designs of the island's most famous resident, the Tasmanian tiger. Yet the last captive animal died in 1936 and according to scientists is officially extinct. Or is it? In Tiger Tales, Col Bailey showcases his favorite Tassie tiger stories, from mysterious sightings over the past 60 years to interviews with old fur-trappers and bushmen from great wilderness regions.
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Well worth the money.......2004-03-07
If you want to learn about the Tasmanian tiger this is a good starting point. Before purchasing this book my only knowledge of the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine ) was that in the early 19th centuary they were wiped out.Sometimes on tv you might see the old black & white newsreel of the "Tiger" walking around , then the yawn showing a alligator smile full of teeth. The reason correct or not was that they were sheep-killers and the government paid a bounty on every Thylacine killed. Soon in a matter of years it was gone. This book has many black & white photos(25+) and stories of early setlers encounters.The more recent sightings in the 1990's might prove that it has survived past 1936.That was the year that the last known "Tiger", Benjamin died alone in the Beaumaris Zoo. After reading this book I hope (like the author) that it still roams the wilds trying to survive mankind.
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