Some Legends Concerning Eleanor of Aquitaine

Speculum ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank McMinn Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Eleanor Of Aquitaine

Political Marriage Alliances at the Shi'i Court of Awadh

1983 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Other ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
Eleanor Of Aquitaine ◽  
The Continuum

A marriage expresses a mutual recognition of some degree of shared identity. The wedding ceremony confirms these links and creates new ones, although to an extent variable with the culture and the specific case. The affinity can be between individuals acting for themselves, for families, or for larger social or national groups. At one extreme would be the temporary liason, stemming from personal whim or passion, between individuals who share little more than common acceptance of the culture which recognizes the form. A Las Vegas marriage followed by a quickie Mexican divorce, a Hindu Gāndharva marriage consummated without any ceremony, or a Shi'i mut 'ah (marriage of pleasure) of contractually stipulated length might typify this end of the continuum. At the other end would be the purely political marriage that links social groups, parties, or even nations together but which disregards the desires of the principals. Richard II's diplomatic marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, a Kulin Brahmin's ritual marriage with dozens of women, or Asaf al-Daula's apparently unconsummated marriage with Shams al-Nisā' Begum (discussed later) exemplifies this extreme. Between lie a diversity of forms within a variety of cultures.

The Eleanor of Aquitaine Vase, William IX of Aquitaine, and Muslim Spain

Gesta ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
George T. Beech
Keyword(s):  
Eleanor Of Aquitaine ◽  
Muslim Spain

Shakespeare’s Adumbrations of State-Based Diplomacy

After Lavinia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Just War ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
European Politics ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Henry V ◽  
Negative View ◽  
Eleanor Of Aquitaine ◽  
King John

This chapter focuses on William Shakespeare's plays, which expressed a negative view of interdynastic marriage as subservience to a foreign power that later dominated European politics. Shakespeare came of age after the failure of Elizabeth I of England in her bid to marry the French Duke of Alençon. The chapter analyzes two of Shakespeare's works, King John and Henry V. King John casts Eleanor of Aquitaine as a manipulator who orchestrates treaties that deprive a rightful heir of his claim to the English throne and put dynastic interest above the welfare of the English people. Henry V is an interrogation of just war theory in its conventional tripartite division: justice in waging, conducting, and ending war.

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