Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir

We are warned in the preface that much speculation is involved in trying to write a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine.  Stlll, I think a historian should know that the Langue d'Oc is a language and not a dialect of French (she spent a few paragraphs on this) and that the Langue d'Oeil is French.  Also, I think a historian should have been able to find out that a cythara actually is a lute, not maybe a lute.  And this was only Chapter 1.

Not having a lot of faith in Weir's abilities as an historian or researcher, I gave it up.

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