Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe 猎隼:亨利八世、安妮·博林和震撼欧洲的婚姻 John Guy

基本信息

ormat:Hardback 624 pages

Publisher:HarperCollins

Imprint:Harper

ISBN:9780063073449

Published:17 Oct 2023

Weight:454g

Dimensions:229 x 152 (mm)

Language:English

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

对历史上具戏剧性、具影响力的婚姻之一进行了开创性的全新研究： 亨利八世对安妮-波林漫长的追求、短暂的结合和残酷的处决。

讲述了亨利八世对安妮-波林的痴迷渴望如何永远地改变了他和他的国家。约翰-盖伊（John Guy）和朱莉娅-福克斯（Julia Fox）是这一时期负盛名的杰出历史学家，他们联手以惊人的新方式展现了安妮和亨利。盖伊和福克斯通过仔细研究新的档案发现，剥开层层历史神话、误读和歪曲，将安妮和亨利的悲剧关系与当时的重大国际事件联系在一起，整合并重新诠释了隐藏在人们视线中或被误解的资料。

这些假设不合时宜地认为，16 世纪的女性，即使是王后，对父权制社会的政治也几乎不会产生任何影响。这些研究揭示了安妮其实是一位精明、甚至无情的政治家，她经常违背男性顾问的建议，指导亨利和他的政策，而亨利也曾认真考虑过让她共同掌权。

将事实和一些全新的发现纳入了一个更广阔的框架，让人们了解这位被误解和低估的女性。该书探讨了安妮是如何以新颖的、（在男性眼中）颠覆性的方式组织她的王室宫廷的，与她的前任王后相比，她采用了法国的礼仪，在她的私人寝宫中男女可以自由交际。

男性可以分享女性通常带有性色彩的宫廷消遣，并且可以自由地接触安妮，而安妮也可以接触他们，她从这些接触中获得了许多政治智慧，扩大了自己的权威，同时也为自己的衰落埋下了种子。

是一部令人振奋的历史研究和分析的壮举，同时也是一个惊心动魄的悲剧故事，讲述了一段几个世纪以来一直令人着迷的婚姻。但在约翰-盖伊和朱莉娅-福克斯的笔下，即使是见多识广的读者也会对这个故事如获至宝。

A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIIIs long courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn.

Hunting the Falconis the story of how Henry VIIIs 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 Henrys 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 advisersand whom Henry seriously contemplated making joint sovereign.

Hunting the Falconsets the factsand some completely new findsinto a far wider frame,providing an appreciation of this misunderstood and underestimated woman. It explores how Anne organized her side 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 womens often sexually charged courtly pastimes and had liberal access to Anne, and she to themencounters 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 Falconis 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.

作者简介

文艺复兴时期历史学家约翰-盖伊曾任苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学教务长和历史教授，现为剑桥大学克莱尔学院历史系研究员。他撰写了多部著作，包括一本畅销教科书《都铎王朝的英格兰》，并为英国广播公司（BBC）提供咨询。

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.