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H.G. Richardson, “The Letters and Charters of Eleanor of Aquitaine,” English Historical Review, 74:193–213 (1959). Régine Pernoud, Aliénor d’Aquitaine (1965), gives more attention to the personality and politics of Eleanor herself, independently from the history of her two husbands. The best study is D.D.R. Owen, Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend (1993). There are important essays in William W. Kibler (ed.), Eleanor of Aquitaine: Patron and Politician (1976); and Jane Martindale, Status, Authority, and Regional Power: Aquitaine and France, 9th to 12th Centuries (1997). Alison Weir, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (1999), is a popular history.

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