3 comments about Standard Catalog of Firearms 2001: The Collector's Price & Reference Guide (Standard Catalog of Firearms).

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3. If you Love guns you wonn't be able to put this book down . Its full of Info on everything you need to know when collection and buying ..

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1. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) was one of the most powerful and influential women of the Middle Ages. She inherited one of the richest bequests in Europe, including the County of Poitou and the Duchy of Aquitaine, but was not content to be any man's chattel. She married King Louis VII, and became Queen of France, and later had that marriage annulled (keeping full control of her patrimony). Then she married King Henry II, and became Queen England (and half of France). Hers was a life of scandal, war, adventure, romance, intrigue...well, let's just say that it was anything but boring!
   
   This book is a very full and highly informative biography of Eleanor, covering most every important event in her adult life, beginning with her engagement to Louis in 1137. Now, if there is a fault in this book, it is that it is too wide-ranging covering everything in exhaustive detail. It does give the book a heavy and somewhat stifling feel.
   
   But, that said, this is a magisterial book, perhaps the greatest biography of Eleanor ever written. So, if you want to really know Eleanor of Aquitaine, then you really must read this book.



2. "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings" has been an important source book for perhaps the majority of authors who have written about this extraordinary woman during the past six decades. This book may have been the most important component of Amy Ruth Kelly's academic work. She was a Harvard scholar, close to retirement when her magnum opus went to press circa 1950.
   
   A careful reading shows that much of Ms. Kelly's text is original in the sense that she was diligent in exploring manuscripts and early histories, borrowing relatively little from her contemporary historians. She pioneered modern Eleanor scholarship.
   
   The author was the product of a more genteel age, a fact which her style betrays. It is curiously antique in places, but easy to read and to follow. For example, she introduces the word "Paraclete" without explanation: she herself needed no introduction to the school of Peter Abelard. Her book includes a number of dated curiosities: for example she refers to the Turkish port from which Eleanor sailed to Antioch as Satalia, rather than the modern day Antalya.
   
   Several modern scholars think Ms. Kelly got the Court of Ladies wrong. I disagree. I believe that she got it partly right. In fact the true nature of Eleanor's Court of Ladies at Poitiers is still the subject of debate. Personally, I believe that the late Claude Marks, the author of "Pilgrims, heretics, and lovers: A medieval journey" came close to reasonable truth on this topic.
   
   "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings" is informative. It can still compete with more recent, "pure" biographies such as Allison Weir's "Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life," and Marion Meade's "Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography." Modern historians have added many facts to the life and times of Eleanor of Aquitaine since Ms. Kelly published her title a lifetime ago. But she left us a record that feels true to life, entertaining and wise.
   
   Robert Fripp, Author of ...
   "Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a turbulent life: Eleanor of Aquitaine"



3. This book is a superior piece of literature, carefully researched, beautifully written, and more exciting than any novel.



4. "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings" has been an important source book for perhaps the majority of authors who have written about this extraordinary woman during the past six decades. This book may have been the most important component of Amy Ruth Kelly's academic work. She was a Harvard scholar, close to retirement when her magnum opus went to press circa 1950.
   
   A careful reading shows that much of Ms. Kelly's text is original in the sense that she was diligent in exploring manuscripts and early histories, borrowing relatively little from her contemporary historians. She pioneered modern Eleanor scholarship.
   
   The author was the product of a more genteel age, a fact which her style betrays. It is curiously antique in places, but easy to read and to follow. For example, she introduces the word "Paraclete" without explanation: she herself needed no introduction to the school of Peter Abelard. Her book includes a number of dated curiosities: for example she refers to the Turkish port from which Eleanor sailed to Antioch as Satalia, rather than the modern day Antalya.
   
   Several modern scholars think Ms. Kelly got the Court of Ladies wrong. I disagree. I believe that she got it partly right. In fact the true nature of Eleanor's Court of Ladies at Poitiers is still the subject of debate. Personally, I believe that the late Claude Marks, the author of "Pilgrims, heretics, and lovers: A medieval journey" came close to reasonable truth on this topic.
   
   "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings" is informative. It can still compete with more recent, "pure" biographies such as Allison Weir's "Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life," and Marion Meade's "Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography." Modern historians have added many facts to the life and times of Eleanor of Aquitaine since Ms. Kelly published her title a lifetime ago. But she left us a record that feels true to life, entertaining and wise.
   
   Robert Fripp, Author of ...
   "Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a turbulent life: Eleanor of Aquitaine"



5. This book is an indispensable link in the chain of events that constitute French mediaeval history. With Eleanor's marriage to Louis VII in 1137 her dowry, the unruly realm of Aquitaine, in theory merged with the Royal Domains of the Capetians, but remained outside Royal control. In 1152 Louis, in need of a male heir, found Eleanor a willing partner in divorce. Outwitting her former husband the King of France, Eleanor's second marriage to the formidable Henry of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, in reality augmented Aquitaine into the Angevin Empire. Further still, the Conquerors crown of 1066 would find another conquerors head, that of Henry II, the Norman dynasty of England is eclipsed by yet another Duke of Normandy, Henry of Anjou, Eleanor becomes queen for a second time. With fateful consequences this union would involve the heavy tread of a Hundred Years War in pursuit of an inheritance. This too would be the last time a Duke of Normandy overawes the King of France in an ambiguous dual capacity as King of England.
   
   Amy Kelly beautifully catches the reflected fragments to this elusive personality through the world of Kings in which she was a part. By following the biography of this extraordinary woman we meet all the major protagonists of the age, including a Byzantine Emperor from her involvement in the Second Crusade, to Archbishop Beckett, as well as those bequeathed to history by the Queen herself, namely King Richard I, the Lion Heart and King John of England. Kelly clarifies a dynastic web of deception, internecine war and greed, bringing warmth to grim events in the persona of the Queen and her troubadour court of high romance that was so much a part of her lineage from the south.
   
   For those whose appetite has been tantalized, this book forms a distinguished trio in conjunction with; The Normans, by David Crouch; Eleanor, by Kelly, and A Distant Mirror, by Barbara Tuchman which brilliantly covers the Hundred Years War. Taken together they form a rich and scholarly narrative on the Middle Ages and of French and English history in particular. Taken on its own, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings remains a classic!

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