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The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: 'The Most Happy'

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: 'The Most Happy' Paperback - 2005

by Eric Ives

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Blackwell Pub, 2005. Paperback. New. new edition edition. 480 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches.
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  • Title The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: 'The Most Happy'
  • Author Eric Ives
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Blackwell Pub, Oxford
  • Date 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # __1405134631
  • ISBN 9781405134637 / 1405134631
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.28 x 1.47 in (23.42 x 15.95 x 3.73 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History - Henry VIII,, Queens - Great Britain
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the rear cover

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.

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About the author

Eric Ives is Emeritus Professor of English History at the University of Birmingham. Ives has written widely on Tudor history, the history of law, and on the development of modern higher education. In 2001 he was awarded an OBE for services to history and the University of Birmingham.