Hunting the falcon : Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the marriage that shook Europe / John Guy and Julia Fox.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063073449 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xxxiii, 581 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), genealogical tables ; 24 cm
- Edition: First US edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Henry: childhood and adolescence -- Henry: apprentice king -- Anne: childhood and adolescence -- Anne: apprentice courtier -- Focus on France -- The Queen's demoiselle -- Looking to the future -- First encounters -- Anne in love -- An anxious year -- Henry in love -- The 'secret matter' -- Anne makes her mark -- The sweat -- Wolsey's nemesis -- The Durham house group -- A breakthrough at last? -- The falcon ascendant -- The marriage -- Anne's triumph -- The ambassadors -- Anne the queen -- Dangerous times -- Family matters -- Piety and pastime -- Court conspiracy -- Into the abyss -- The trials begin -- The falcon at bay. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Based on new research, this history of Henry VIII's courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn provides dispels previously held myths about Boleyn's role in the marriage. - Baker & Taylor
Based on new research, this history of Henry VIIIâs courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn provides dispels previously held myths about Boleynâs role in the marriage. 40,000 first printing. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
Henry VIII's obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn changed him-- and his country-- forever. Guy and Fox set the facts-- and some complete new finds-- into an appreciation of his misunderstood and underestimated women. They explore how Anne organized her "side" on the royal court on novel and (in male eyes) subversive lines compared to her queenly predecessors. Guy and Fox take readers inside a thrilling and tragic story of a marriage that has held enduring fascination over the centuries. -- adapted from jacket - HARPERCOLL
âA fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anneâs triumph and tragedy." âTina Brown, New York Times Book Review
âA sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue, and betrayal, underpinned by the harsh reality of politics.ââAmanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIIIâs long courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn.
Hunting the Falcon is the story of how Henry VIIIâs 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 startlingly new ways. By closely examining the most recent archival discoveries, and peeling back layers of historical myth and misinterpretation and distortion, Guy and Fox are able to set Anne and Henryâs 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 no 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 advisersâand whom Henry seriously contemplated making joint sovereign.
 Hunting the Falcon sets the factsâand some completely new findsâinto a far wider frame, providing an appreciation of this misunderstood and underestimated woman. It explores how Anne organized her âsideâ of the royal court on novel and (in male eyes) subversive lines compared to her queenly predecessors, adopting instead French protocol by which the sexes mingled freely in her private chambers. Men could share in the womenâs often sexually charged courtly âpastimesâ and had liberal access to Anne, and she to themâencounters from which she gained much of her political intelligence and extended her authority, and which also sowed the seeds of her own downfall.
 An exhilarating feat of historical research and analysis, Hunting the Falcon is also a thrilling and tragic story of a marriage that has proved of enduring fascination over the centuries. But in the hands of John Guy and Julia Fox, even the most knowledgeable reader will encounter this story as if for the first time.