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This diligently-researched book gets to the heart of her personality, and of those closest to her, friends and enemies, as it is possible to do so when putting the lives of people who lived so long ago under the spotlight. The author hacks away at several centuries of thickly encrusted innuendo and lurid embroidery of stark facts and offers us a painstakingly-presented portrait of a of a medieval life that will surely render many earlier biographies redundant. The text is usefully supplemented with genealogical tables, a glossary with a few lines on the more important contemporary European royalty and the English earls, and sixteen pages of plates, mostly of relevant castles and places of worship.

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