You know the old adage, “take things with a shaker of salt”? Well, with this book you don’t need a shaker; you need the entire darn Dead Sea. Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Mother Queen of the Middle Ages professes to be a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II, mother of Richard the Lionheart and John “Lackland” of Magna Carta fame; what it turned out to be was the tale of Eleanor, apparently the Livia of England, she-bitch goddess from Hell, as told […]