Preface.
List of Illustrations.
Part I: Background and Beginnings.
1. A Courtier’s Daughter.
2. A European Education.
3. Debut at the English Court.
4. The Sources.
5. Passion and Courtly Love.
6. A Royal Suitor.
Part II: A Difficult Engagement.
7. A Marriage Arranged.
8. Anne Boleyn and the Fall of Wolsey.
9. Stalemate, 1529–1532.
10. The Turning-point, 1532–1533.
11. Wedding Nerves.
12. A Coronation and a Christening.
Part III: Anne the Queen.
13. A Royal Marriage.
14. Anne the Queen: Influence, Power and Wealth.
15. Anne Boleyn: Image.
16. Anne Boleyn: Art and Taste.
17. Anne Boleyn: Life at Court.
18. Anne Boleyn and the Advent of Reform.
19. Personal Religion.
Part IV: A Marriage Destroyed.
20. The Rival, 1535–1536.
21. The Coup, April–May 1536.
22. The Response, January–April 1536.
23. Judgment.
24. Finale.
Epilogue.
Bibliographical Abbreviations.
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.
"[Ives is] splendidly successful... Ives's Boleyn, a portrait at
all points supported by the evidence he gives, is clever,
independent-minded and politically astute. Ives has gone as far as
anyone can... in solving the enigma of Boleyn in a narrative at
once profoundly researched and lively." Antonia Fraser, The Sunday
Times
"Eric Ives has made it unnecessary for anyone else to even make the
attempt [to write a biography of Anne Boleyn]. The Life and Death
of Anne Boleyn is a stunning portrait of the most controversial
woman ever to have been queen consort of England." The Independent
on Sunday
"Eric Ives, a scholar utterly at home in early Tudor politics, has
been writing about the Boleyns for more than two decades. His book
represents a triumphant culmination of all that research, presented
with clarity, wit and human sympathy." Diarmaid MacCulloch, The
Telegraph
"Ives has written an excellent book on Anne Boleyn. Its great
strength is its sophisticated understanding of aristocratic women's
involvement in 16th-century politics, and precisely how this worked
in practice. ...Ives rises effectively to the human drama of Anne
Boleyn's life and in the process illuminates both the inner
workings of the Tudor court and its relationship to the larger
dramas of the Reformation and European politics." Jane Stevenson,
Scotland on Sunday
"The best full-length life of Anne Boleyn and a monument to
investigative scholarship." David Starkey
"Magnificently researched. Eric Ives has written the finest, most
accurate study of Anne Boleyn we are ever likely to possess. He
leaves no stone unturned in his quest to discover the truth. Never
has the historical Anne been so satisfyingly portrayed." John
Guy
"What is most exciting about The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn is
not just that it has confirmed and solidified Ives's earlier work
and presented it in a more accessible format. (Like John Guy, Ives
has discovered that the Starkey model really does work and that
popularisation -- 'to place among the people' -- should not be a
term of opprobrium.) Rather, it is the development in methodology,
the indication that cultural studies and the history of the book
have provided us with new ways to evaluate evidence, to interpret
the past." The Spectator
"Eric Ives achieves the notable feat of combining magisterial
historical authority with a gripping style, and sets the reader's
mind buzzing with debate about the complex reasons behind the
astounding events of Anne's life." Times Literary Supplement
"[Ives] delicately pieces together a believable identity ... [and]
gives, too, a lucid and coherent exposition of the circumstances
that led to Anne's death." The Guardian
"What Ives doesn't know ... about the high politics and court life
of Henry VIII's England will either never be known or is not worth
knowing. If there is a truth about Anne Boleyn's rise and fall, he
will tell it to us." London Review of Books
"There is no questioning the impact of Professor Eric Ives on the
historiography of Tudor England. There is a keen sense of the
evidence, of diplomatic affairs, of the minutiae of the record and
its context. The writing is fluent and well-paced, drawing the
reader along." The Tyndale Society Journal
"This is a moving and compelling account by an author who is the
absolute master of his subject. I read it with great excitement and
admiration." Susan Brigden, Lincoln College, Oxford
"Ives demonstrates triumphantly the potential of the biographical
approach in a pre-modern setting. He evinces a deep empathy for his
subject without ever becoming an apologist for her, and ... he
provides a narrative which is genuinely moving. He has also given
us a fully rounded and persuasive account of Anne’s life as a
whole, and its significance for understanding the politics and
political culture of the early Tudor decades." Reviews in
History
"The best book on Anne Boleyn ever written. This is a must for all
lovers of Tudor history, academics and general readers alike."
Alison Weir, BBC History Magazine Books of the Year
"Eric Ives has cut through the myths and misconceptions. The result
surpasses all previous work.When Ives describes Anne herself. he is
utterly convincing." Renaissance Quarterly
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