RESEARCH IN ENGLAND WAS done at Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London; Southwark Cathedral, Southwark; the York Minister Library, the Foundation Museum, St. William’s College, City of York; the Salisbury Public Library, Old Sarum, Salisbury; Wallington Public Library, Wallington. In the United States, research was conducted in Los Angeles at the UCLA Research and College Libraries, the Brand Music and Art Library in Glendale, the Glendale Public Library, and the Pasadena Public Library.
Of the many history volumes consulted the one I relied on most heavily was Marion Mead’s superb biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The following were also particularly helpful: Eleanor of Aquitaine, by Desmond Seward; Eleanor of Aquitaine, by Regine Pernoud; Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, by Amy Kelly; Eleanor of Aquitaine, by M. V. Rosenberg; England Under the Angevin Kings, vols. I and II, by Kate Norgate; The King and Becket, by Nesta Paine; Henry the Second, by A. S. Green; Henry II, King of England, by Geraldus Cambrensis; Henry II Plantagenet, by John Schlicht; My Life for My Sheep, by Thomas Duggan; Life in a Medieval City, Life in a Medieval Castle, Women in the Middle Ages, all by E and G. Gies; Daily Living in the 12th Century, by Urban T. Holmes, Jr.; Pilgrims, Heretics and Lovers, by Claude Marks; Life on a Medieval Barony, by W. S. Davis; The Survey of London, by John Stow; Medieval London, by Timothy Baker; Harlots, Whores and Hookers, by Hilary Evans; Beds, Bawds and Lodgings, by C. J. Burford; Sex in History, by C. Rattray Taylor; The Women Troubadours, by Meg Bogin; Songs of the Troubadours, edited and translated by Anthony Bonner; The Conquering Family, by Thomas Costain; De Nugis Curialium (Courtier’s Trifles), by Walter Map, edited and translated by Frederick Tupper and M. B. Ogle; The Middle Ages, A Concise Encyclopaedia, edited by H. R. Loyn; Henry II, by W L. Warren.