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Did you ever wonder where the practice of love came from? At what point did primitive mankind, the brutal survivor, become a lover? The twelfth century is that point in time and this is the person who brought about the romantic change. There once was a teenage girl in the Middle Ages who became the Queen of France and then became the Queen of England. At the height of her power she brings to the world, the courts of love. This after leading the Medieval Second Crusade in the Holy Lands. She uses her power of seduction to change history. Her courts with knights and trials of love are legendary. At her high point, her husband King Henry II murders Thomas Becket, closes her court and condemns her to prison for 15 years. She outlives her jailer and then goes to a dungeon to personally rescue her son Richard the Lionhearted after his crusade. As a mother of ten children she becomes the grandmother who manages to place her offspring at the head of every European court. Where to begin this? In the Middle East, in Outremer, she carries a victorious crusade battle plan to be outrulled by her husband which ends in disaster. Even so, she discovers Persian ways that change her way of life and ours forever. She lived an erotic personality that blossoms to become a code of love. |
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