There really was no central conflict that the story flowed along so it was going to have to be the characters that made it interesting and unfortunately it fell flat a lot of the time. I thought a novel about Eleanor of Aquitaine would be a powerful story pushed along by a powerful character. That's the summarized version, but for those of you who want a little more I will go into detail. Sweeping from the courts of Paris to the perils of the Crusades, Duchess of Aquitaine gloriously illuminates the life of one of the most powerful, resourceful, and fascinating women in all of history. While her alliance to Louis VII may be a dazzling one, her husband is a cautious man whose wit and courage do not always match Eleanor's own, and she ultimately finds herself seeking an even greater match with Henry II of England. Everyone, that is, except her dying father, who insists on leaving Eleanor his most valuable provinces-and making her prey to the first baron who rides in to kidnap her.Įleanor, though, is not content to sit idly by and let herself become a victim, and devises a plan to marry the heir to the throne of France.
For all of the duke's boasts that Eleanor has the brains of a man and the soul of a warrior, everyone knows that a girl of fifteen cannot possibly hold the richest dukedom in France.
Beautiful and brilliant, Eleanor is the daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering court is the twelfth-century birthplace of courtly love.
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