Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions

Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions
ISBN-10
0300165854
ISBN-13
9780300165852
Series
Anne Boleyn
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2010-05-25
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
G. W. Bernard

Description

Review: "In this groundbreaking new biography, G.W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of England's most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn's girlhood, her experience at the French court, the nature of her relationship with Henry and the authenticity of her evangelical sympathies. He depicts Anne Boleyn as a captivating, intelligent and highly sexual woman whose attractions Henry resisted for years until marriage could ensure legitimacy for their offspring." "He shows that it was Henry, not Anne, who developed the ideas that led to the break with Rome. And, most radically, he argues that the allegations of adultery that led to Anne's execution in the Tower could he close to the truth."--BOOK JACKET

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