The 12th-Century was a long time ago. Into it, Eleanor was born, inheriting both a legacy to relish and traditions to resist. In some ways, she was a woman from the future, embracing a new sensibility for governance, music, travel, style, education, and employing a code of love.

Eleanor’s influence

• Romance of Troy - world’s longest poem

• Code of Love - world’s first school of manners

• Troubadours - new school of  personal love composers

• Charters of Oleron - she wrote the world’s first maritime law