The new historical novel by Dmitry Agalakov is dedicated to the most famous and brilliant queen of the Western European Middle Ages – Alienore Aquitaine. The whole life of this queen is one big adventure. Thanks to an ardent manner and two marriage, she managed to give the heirs both the French and the English crown. Her son was the legendary king of England Richard Lion’s heart, and the great -grandson – the most revered king of France, Louis Saint. The novel covers the early and brightest period of Alienora’s life when she was the wife of the King of France Louis The Seventh. It is this married couple that belongs to the initiative of the second crusade, in which Alienora took part with her husband. Political adventures, visiting the crusaders of the capital of the world of Constantinople, a trip to the Holy Land behind the coffin of the Lord, the battles with the Saracens and the most scandalous love novel, excited the Middle Ages, will reveal the image of the “Aquatic Lioness” against the reader against the backdrop of the great events of the 12th century, unfolding into vast …
Author
Agalakov Dmitry Valentinovich
Publisher
Veche, 2013
Series
World History in the novels
Genre
Modern domestic prose
16+
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