800年前，玛蒂尔达差点儿就依靠自己的顺位继承权成为英格兰历史上第一位女王！玛蒂尔达如何抵达了权力的巅峰，却又功亏一篑，与王位失之交臂？她的儿媳阿基坦的埃莉诺（法王路易七世之妻，后嫁英王亨利二世）同样是一个令人生畏的强悍女性。虽然埃莉诺以中世纪的古典骑士之爱被后人所铭记，但是，在她漫长的一生中，她先后嫁了两个国王，唯一的后果就是引起了一场叛乱...她最终在70高龄问鼎权力之巅！
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Eleanor
Richard
Roger of Howden
Holy
英式拼写，听写以音频为主
Eleanor had to rule England because Richard was away on crusade. And unusually for Eleanor's controversial career, her power didn't provoke critical comment. It seemed that a queen mother ruling on behalf of her son, the King, was infinitely more acceptable than a queen ruling in her own right.
To establish her son's new regime, Eleanor travelled from city to city and castle to castle at the head of her queenly court, an unusual adjective for the chronicler Roger of Howden to choose, but one that emphasised the rare spectacle of a woman alone at the helm of English government.
And she had to do the job for much longer than anyone had anticipated. On his way back from the Holy land, Richard was captured, and spent more than a year behind the walls of a German castle. | 
发表于 2016-8-2 13:37:24