Word: elinor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year 1137, Elinor, grand-daughter of William IX of Aquitaine, married Louis VII of France. The marriage was not a happy one. It was ended by a divorce allowed on the grounds of propinquity, she being his cousin seven times removed. Being freed thus, Elinor was again married, this time to Henry, Count of Anjou. The alliance is significant to us from its social rather than its political effects. By far the most important part of Elinor's dowry was the new conception of society which she brought with her from the south of France to the northern provinces...
...Elinor was herself a patron of poetry. There is every reason to believe that her court was the resort of all the brilliant men and the poets of the north of France. Fortunately for us it was their delight to take for their theme the novel moral ideals and virtues of the time. The troubadours loved to tell first of all of courtesy as high in the rank of virtues; then of valor, of generosity, of perfect refinement and gentleness. There were other virtues which do not now pass as such. Youth was lauded, age condemned. Without joy, whether active...
...Provence, woman was restored not only to equality with man, but to a vast superiority. The ideals of Provence were carried north by Elinor. They were spread further through France by the influence of her daughter Marie, who married Count Henry of Champagne and set up her court at Trois. She gave great encouragement to poetry and developed a school in the north of France whose ideals and forms were essentially those of the troubadors of Provence. From Trois came the poet Chretien, whose works, written with much skill, became universally popular. Through them he gave expression in extenso...
...Miss Elinor Buckingham, a senior in the Harvard Annex, has been appointed an instructor in the Royal Normal College for the Blind at London...