The Summer Queen

Select Bibliography

In my opinion the most useful biographies are Ralph Turner’s and Jean Flori’s, and the Wheeler and Parsons series of articles provide an excellent summary of aspects of Alienor’s life.

Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and its Art Treasures, edited, translated and annotated by Erwin Panofsky, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0 691 003 14 9

Baldwin, John W., Paris, 1200, Stanford University Press, 2010, ISBN

978 0 8047 7207 5

Boyd, Douglas, Eleanor April Queen of Aquitaine, Sutton, 2004, ISBN 978 0750 932905

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady, edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John C. Parsons, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, ISBN 978 0 230 60236 6

Flori, Jean, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen and Rebel, Edinburgh University Press,

2004

Gobry, Ivan, Louis VII 1137–1180, Pygmalion, 2002, ISBN 978 2 7564 0391 5

Grant, Lindy, Abbot Suger of St-Denis: Church and State in Early Twelfth-Century France, Longman, 1998, ISBN 0 582 051508

John of Salisbury’s Memoirs of the Papal Court, translated from the Latin with introduction and notes by Marjorie Chibnall D. Phil., Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1956

Kelly, Amy, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, 1950, ISBN 978 067424254 8

King, Alison, Akashic Records Consultant

Meade, Marion, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography, Frederick Muller, 1978, ISBN 0 584 10347 6

Odo of Deuil, De Profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem, edited with an English translation by Virginia Gingerick Berry, Columbia University Press, 1947

Owen, D. R., Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend, Blackwell, 1993,

ISBN 0 631 17072 3

Painter, Sidney, ‘Castellans of the Plains of Poitou in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries’, article published in Speculum, 1956

Pernoud, Régine, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Collins, 1967

Sassier, Yves, Louis VII, Fayard, 1991, ISBN 978 2213 027869

Seward, Desmond, Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Mother Queen, David & Charles, 1978, ISBN 0 7153 7647 0

Turner, Ralph, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Yale, 2009, ISBN 978 0 300 11911 4

Weir, Alison, Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England, Pimlico, 2000, ISBN 978 0 7126 7317 4

The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Thirteenth Centuries, edited by Marcus Bull and Catherine Léglu, Boydell, 2005, ISBN 1 84383 114 7