The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn - Hardcover

Eric Ives

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631234799 ISBN 13: 9780631234791

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

This definitive biography of Anne Boleyn establishes her as a figure of considerable importance and influence in her own right.

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• A full biography of Anne Boleyn, based on the latest scholarly research.
  
• Focusses on Anne’s life and legacy and establishes Anne as a figure of considerable importance and influence in her own right.
  
• Adulteress or innocent victim? Looks afresh at the issues at the heart of Anne's downfall.
  
• Pays attention to her importance as a patron of the arts, particularly in relation to Hans Holbein.
  
• Presents evidence about Anne’s spirituality and her interest in the intellectual debates of the period.
  
• Takes account of significant advances in knowledge in recent years.

About this title

Book Description:

Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of Englands queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. Henrys second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Yet what do we know of the achievements and legacy of her short reign?In The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn Eric Ives provides the most detailed and convincing portrait we have of the queen. He reveals a person of intellect with a passion for the new culture of the Renaissance, a woman who made her way in a mans world by force of education and personality. She played a powerful and independent role in the faction-ridden court of Henry VIII and the unceasing struggle for royal favour that was Tudor politics. The consequences can still be detected today. Indeed, Ives shows that it was precisely because Anne was a powerful figure in her own right that it needed a coup to bring her down. She had to be stopped even by a lie.

About the Author:

Eric Ives is Emeritus Professor of English History at the University of Birmingham. Ives has written widely on Tudor history, the history of law, and on the development of modern higher education. In 2001 he was awarded an OBE for services to history and the University of Birmingham.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0631234799
• ISBN 13: 9780631234791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 458