The life and death of Anne Boleyn : "The Most Happy"
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The life and death of Anne Boleyn : "The Most Happy"
Blackwell, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England's queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. Henry's 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 the 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 man's 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.
Table of Contents
Preface.List of Illustrations.Part I: Background and Beginnings.1. A Courtier's Daughter.2. A European Education.3. Debut at the English Court.4. The Sources.5. Passion and Courtly Love.6. A Royal Suitor.Part II: A Difficult Engagement.7. A Marriage Arranged.8. Anne Boleyn and the Fall of Wolsey.9. Stalemate, 1529 - 1532.10. The Turning-point, 1532 - 1533.11. Wedding Nerves.12. A Coronation and a Christening.Part III: Anne the Queen.13. A Royal Marriage.14. Anne the Queen: Influence, Power and Wealth.15. Anne Boleyn: Image.16. Anne Boleyn: Art and Taste.17. Anne Boleyn: Life at Court.18. Anne Boleyn and the Advent of Reform.19. Personal Religion.Part IV: A Marriage Destroyed.20. The Rival, 1535 - 1536.21. The Coup, April - May 1536.22. The Response, January - April 1536.23. Judgment.24. Finale.Epilogue.Bibliographical Abbreviations.Index.
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