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If you want a job done properly, get a woman to do it.

That seems to me the unanswerable lesson of that wild ride, that wild period in Western

European history, which was the late 12th and early 13th century. The era of the Angevan Empire,

the era of the Lionheart, the soft sword, the road to Magna Carta, the era of the Angevan Empire, the era of the Lionheart, the soft sword, the road to Magna Carta,

the era, we should call it, of Eleanor of Aquitaine, kings loved her, men died for her.

She redrew the map of medieval Europe.

She was the only woman to be crowned both Queen of France and England.

She marched on the Second Crusade to the Holy Land.

She led a coup against her own husband.

Even the Pope feared her.

Eleanor of Aquitaine was the beating heart.

She was the matriarch of that most powerful and explosive families,

the Plantagenet. Her wealth from Akritaine bankrolled kings, her patronage-shaped courtly culture,

and her children, oh, what can we say about her children, including Rich the Lionheart and King John,

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