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Author Bernard, G. W

Title Anne Boleyn : fatal attractions / G.W. Bernard
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : illustrations, portrait
Series JSTOR EBA
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. 'These Bloody Days Have Broken my Heart': The Fall of Anne Boleyn -- 2. Who Was Anne Boleyn? -- 3. 'Whose pretty dukkys I Trust Shortly to kiss' Henry VIII's Infatuation With Anne -- 4. 'The King's Great Matter': Henry's Divorce and Anne -- 5. 'The Most Happy': King Henry and Queen Anne -- 6. She 'Wore Yellow for the Mourning': Anne Against Catherine -- 7. 'I Have Done Many Good Deeds in My Life': Anne Boleyn's Religion -- 8. Anne's Miscarriage -- 9. Conspiracy? -- 10. 'A Much Higher Fault': The Countess of Worcester's Charge Against Anne -- 11. 'You Would Look to Have Me': Anne's Lovers? -- 12. 'Incontinent Living so Rank and Common': Was Anne Guilty? -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Portraits of Anne Boleyn -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 -- Marriage
SUBJECT Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536. fast (OCoLC)fst00037203
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547. fast (OCoLC)fst00043478
Subject Queens -- England -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty.
Kings and rulers.
Marriage.
Queens.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Biography
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056863
Subject England.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009039203
ISBN 9780300165852
0300165854
0300170890
9780300170894