Eleanor of Aquitaine     LETTER | FEATURES | COURTLY LOVE

1000 years ago life was brutal. Yet from the darkest of ages, the art of romance came into being. When all your neighbors are barbarians, what caused a man to herocially create the model of grace, nobility, compassion, and love? This was a great transition for humanity, and for this, the primary creator Eleanor suffered fifteen years in prison, now a queen largely forgotten.

Eleanor of Aquitaine was a forceful and voluputous Queen who cultivated a romantic Renaissance. He ideas about love and desire changed the morals and laws permitting human nature. Eleanor believed in love as a prime good and driver of humanity. For those who cherish the origins of romance and chivalry, forthose who want to discover its birth - Eleanor's story serves a legend, myth and warning.

It is hard to imagine that readers of romantic adventure have overlooked its very origin. Eleanor precedes Joan of Arc as Eleanor as a leader of warriors in the Crusader in the Holy lands. Compared to Joan, Eleanor's beauty charged tens of thosands of warriors who would follow her into battle, leaving a far more profound lesson of feminine power and personal endurance. And yet, Eleanor today is an erased face of history. Here is a woman who seduces, gives birth, and generates an everlasting change to Western civilization. She redefines the role of an essential woman - teenager, mother, professional, grandmother - and in so doing redefines the role of man.

The powerful and controversial legend is an original historical fiction and screenplay, ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE.

 


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