Hunting the Falcon
Autor John Guy, Julia Foxen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 oct 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780063073449
ISBN-10: 0063073447
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper
ISBN-10: 0063073447
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper
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Notă biografică
Formerly provost and history professor at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, Renaissance historian John Guy is now a fellow in history at Clare College, University of Cambridge. He has written several books, including a best-selling textbook, Tudor England, and consults for the BBC.
Caracteristici
While there are numerous separate biographies of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, this is the first major trade work that presents a dual biography of both figures. It fuses the big historical focus of serious histories with the intimate lens often used by novelists and feminine biographers in their treatment of this period -- creating a new, bestselling chemistry
Recenzii
The prologue is indicative of the book as a whole, which combines meticulously researched history and contemporary voices with narrative flair . . . The Guy/Fox approach is fresh partly because they are a married couple writing about a marriage, but more because they reframe the story in the context of continental European politics, in contrast to the parochial English exceptionalism that pervades writing about this era. The authors have uncovered a fair bit of new material in their scouring of the archives and libraries of Europe, the most interesting relating to Anne's teenage years on the Continent
The vivacious Anne Boleyn comes alive in this impressive study . In Hunting the Falcon, the husband-and-wife team John Guy and Julia Fox have returned to the contemporary sources to place the marriage in its European context. Guy, a Cambridge historian, is one of only a handful of scholars capable of deciphering some of these manuscripts, while Fox has written a groundbreaking book on Boleyn's sister-in-law, Jane Parker. The result of their efforts moves and informs, improving our understanding of "the marriage that convulsed a continent" and revitalising the biography of Anne . In Hunting the Falcon we see [Anne] quick, bright in flight, her eyes still keen and her talons sharp
Traces the diplomatic threads of the story with skill . . . Guy and Fox do Anne the courtesy of taking her seriously as a political agent - even if a disastrously unsuccessful one . . . A serious and compelling study
[Hunting the Falcon] is not another unavailing attempt to unravel Anne's psyche or the secret of her appeal to Henry . It is an attempt, and a successful one, to reintroduce her as a player on the European political stage . Guy and Fox's research has also produced significant new evidence on the complex web of European negotiations surrounding Henry's efforts to shake off one wife and marry another. The diplomatic world springs vividly to life here . Anne's role on this European stage has long been almost ignored . But Guy and Fox foreground her placement here and both the advantages and perils that it brought . In many places, where once we had speculation, we now have certainty. This book is at once an education and a joy to read
Provides the most cogent narrative reading of the evidence to date. It leaves us in no doubt of the momentous consequences of Henry's pursuit of Anne Boleyn . . . Fox and Guy achieve this by emphasising the influence of France on the formation of Anne's personality, her ideas and even on the circumstances of her fall. This they set against the backdrop of international alliances
A necessary corrective to the old, broad-strokes story that paints Henry as a fickle child and Anne as the essential Boleyn-dynasty machiavel
There has been nothing like it since Eric Ives' magisterial Anne Boleyn . . . New interpretations of some known sources and insights gained from recent archival research clarify significant points in Anne's story, many of them too often mangled or distorted
Better than Wolf Hall because it's all true. The authors' extraordinary scholarship in every possible historical source, as well as the vibrancy of their writing, delivers the seemingly impossible: a genuinely fresh interpretation of the marriage that produced Protestant England and the greatest of all the British monarchs, Elizabeth I. With a paranoiac court where mild flirtation could lead to torture and disembowelment, the story still has the power to shock: Henry Tudor meets Joseph Stalin. Anne Boleyn was a strong independent woman, and paid an horrific price for it
John Guy and Julia Fox have turned Henry VIII's second marriage into a sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue and betrayal, underpinned by the harsh reality of politics. Enriched by a trove of fresh material, Hunting the Falcon offers a new and richer interpretation of one of the most turbulent periods in British history
The vivacious Anne Boleyn comes alive in this impressive study . In Hunting the Falcon, the husband-and-wife team John Guy and Julia Fox have returned to the contemporary sources to place the marriage in its European context. Guy, a Cambridge historian, is one of only a handful of scholars capable of deciphering some of these manuscripts, while Fox has written a groundbreaking book on Boleyn's sister-in-law, Jane Parker. The result of their efforts moves and informs, improving our understanding of "the marriage that convulsed a continent" and revitalising the biography of Anne . In Hunting the Falcon we see [Anne] quick, bright in flight, her eyes still keen and her talons sharp
Traces the diplomatic threads of the story with skill . . . Guy and Fox do Anne the courtesy of taking her seriously as a political agent - even if a disastrously unsuccessful one . . . A serious and compelling study
[Hunting the Falcon] is not another unavailing attempt to unravel Anne's psyche or the secret of her appeal to Henry . It is an attempt, and a successful one, to reintroduce her as a player on the European political stage . Guy and Fox's research has also produced significant new evidence on the complex web of European negotiations surrounding Henry's efforts to shake off one wife and marry another. The diplomatic world springs vividly to life here . Anne's role on this European stage has long been almost ignored . But Guy and Fox foreground her placement here and both the advantages and perils that it brought . In many places, where once we had speculation, we now have certainty. This book is at once an education and a joy to read
Provides the most cogent narrative reading of the evidence to date. It leaves us in no doubt of the momentous consequences of Henry's pursuit of Anne Boleyn . . . Fox and Guy achieve this by emphasising the influence of France on the formation of Anne's personality, her ideas and even on the circumstances of her fall. This they set against the backdrop of international alliances
A necessary corrective to the old, broad-strokes story that paints Henry as a fickle child and Anne as the essential Boleyn-dynasty machiavel
There has been nothing like it since Eric Ives' magisterial Anne Boleyn . . . New interpretations of some known sources and insights gained from recent archival research clarify significant points in Anne's story, many of them too often mangled or distorted
Better than Wolf Hall because it's all true. The authors' extraordinary scholarship in every possible historical source, as well as the vibrancy of their writing, delivers the seemingly impossible: a genuinely fresh interpretation of the marriage that produced Protestant England and the greatest of all the British monarchs, Elizabeth I. With a paranoiac court where mild flirtation could lead to torture and disembowelment, the story still has the power to shock: Henry Tudor meets Joseph Stalin. Anne Boleyn was a strong independent woman, and paid an horrific price for it
John Guy and Julia Fox have turned Henry VIII's second marriage into a sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue and betrayal, underpinned by the harsh reality of politics. Enriched by a trove of fresh material, Hunting the Falcon offers a new and richer interpretation of one of the most turbulent periods in British history