![]() Pays attention to her importance as a patron of the arts, particularly in relation to Hans Holbein. Adulteress or innocent victim? Looks afresh at the issues at the heart of Anne' s downfall. Focusses on Anne' s life and legacy and establishes Anne as a figure of considerable importance and influence in her own right. ![]() A full biography of Anne Boleyn, based on the latest scholarly research. This definitive biography of Anne Boleyn establishes her as a figure of considerable importance and influence in her own right. 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. ![]() The consequences can still be detected today. 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. 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. 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. ![]() Henry's second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England's queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. ![]()
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