A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever.In many places, where once we had speculation, we now have certainty. This book is at once an education and a joy to read LITERARY REVIEWCombines meticulously researched history and contemporary voices with narrative flair SUNDAY TIMESAnne Boleyn comes alive in this impressive study . . . Moves and informs THE TIMESThe most cogent narrative reading of the evidence to date SPECTATORThe story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending just short of three years later when a husbands passion turned to such hatred that he simply wanted his wife gone. In Hunting the Falcon, John Guy and Julia Fox examine the most recent archival discoveries and peel back layers of historical myth to present Anne and Henry in startlingly new ways. They show how Anne and Henrys relationship was tied almost completely to the major events of international politics at one of the great turning points of European history, and dispel any assumptions that a sixteenthcentury woman, even a queen, could exert little influence on the politics and beliefs of a patriarchal society. Anne was in fact a shrewd and ruthless politician in her own right, a woman who steered Henry and his policies and whom Henry...

Binding: Paperback;624 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc; Classification: BGH; Weight: 584 g; Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 41

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