If you don’t follow Textbook you’re out of your mind. Is a nice take on fashion and literature (or history as is the case here). Why I’m reblogging this? ‘Cause I’ve been obsesing with Eleanor of Aquitane for quite a while now. She’s an amazing character that shows that women haven’t been the poor victims of men through all history as we tend to beleive: women have had the power for centuries and we’ve given it to others for reasons like love, lust, fear or just commodity.

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Hello Textbook people, I’m glad to be back, work has been crazy lately but hey, it pays my bills. Here we have Eleanor of Aquitane, basically the most bitchin’ badass woman of medieval times. Eleanor was a highly educated, strong willed and fiercely political. When she was 15, she became…