Bibliograph

Hunting the falcon, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the marriage that shook Europe, John Guy and Julia Fox

Type

Label

Hunting the falcon, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the marriage that shook Europe, John Guy and Julia Fox

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-550) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

genealogical tablesplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hunting the falcon

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1404263179

Responsibility statement

John Guy and Julia Fox

Sub title

Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the marriage that shook Europe

Summary

"Hunting the Falcon is the story of how Henry VIII's obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn changed him and his country forever. John Guy and Julia Fox, two of the most acclaimed and distinguished historians of this period, have joined forces to present Anne and Henry in startilingly new ways. By closely examining the most recentarchival discoveries, and peeling back layers of historical myth and misinterpretation and distortion, guy and Fox are able to set Anne and Henry's tragic relationship against the major international events of the time, and integrate and reinterpret sources hidden in plain sight or simply misunderstood. Among other things, they dispel lingering and latently misogynistic assumptions about Anne which anachronistically presumed that a sixteenth-century woman, even a queen, could exert little to influence on the politics and beliefs of a patriarchal society. They reveal how, in fact, Anne was a shrewd, if ruthless, politician in her own right, a woman who steered Henry and his policies, often against the advice he received from his male advisers- and whom Henry seriously contemplated making joint sovereign." Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

Classification