Never has the historical Anne been so satisfyingly portrayed.' John Guy He leaves no stone unturned in his quest to discover the truth. Eric Ives has written the finest, most accurate study of Anne Boleyn we are ever likely to possess. 'The best full–length life of Anne Boleyn and a monument to investigative scholarship.' David Starkey 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 'Ives has written an excellent book on Anne Boleyn. His book represents a triumphant culmination of all that research, presented with clarity, wit and human sympathy.' Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Telegraph

'Eric Ives, a scholar utterly at home in early Tudor politics, has been writing about the Boleyns for more than two decades.

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 has made it unnecessary for anyone else to even make the attempt. in solving the enigma of Boleyn in a narrative at once profoundly researched and lively.' Antonia Fraser, The Sunday Times Ives′s Boleyn, a portrait at all points supported by the evidence he gives, is clever, independent–minded and politically astute.

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