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Sto caricando le informazioni... Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History (2023)di Tracy Borman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a wonderful book for anyone with a great interest in Anne Boleyn and/or her daughter Elizabeth, because it looks at the history from a different, more intimate angle, which always broadens one's knowledge. I have already read several biographies or each woman, and I learned new things. I think that reading at least a short biography of each woman is probably a good idea in order to have the larger picture. The book also has wonderful pictures of objects associated with Anne Boleyn that I have never seen any other place. Incidentally, Borman speaks of a chair very likely made for Anne Boleyn having "eavesdroppers." I didn't find a definition in the dictionary, but after an internet search, they are apparently it is figures decorating the chair that represents someone who might be listening in. I got this from the library, but I will be getting my own copy. The one thing that I would have liked is a more extensive family tree for the Boleyns and their in-laws - the one just of the Boleyns is greatly simplified. Elizabeth favored her mother's relatives, and there are quite a few - sometimes envisioning the relationship of Elizabeth's great-aunt's grandchild got complex. Of course, it might have had to be a foldout page, or at least several pages. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating relationship in that historic era may well be that between the mother and daughter who, individually and collectively, changed the course of British history. The future Queen Elizabeth was not yet three when her mother, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded on May 19, 1536, on Henry's order, incensed that she had not given him a son and tired of her contentious nature. Elizabeth had been raised away from court, rarely even seeing Anne; and after her death, Henry tried in every way to erase Anne's presence and memory. At that moment in history, few could have predicted that mother and daughter would each leave enduring, and interlocked, legacies. Yet as Tracy Borman reveals in this first-ever joint portrait, both women broke the mold for British queens and for women in general at the time. Anne was instrumental in reforming and reshaping forever Britain's religious traditions, and her years of wielding power over a male-dominated court provided an inspiring role model for Elizabeth's glittering and unprecedented 45-year reign. Indeed, Borman shows how much Elizabeth--most visibly by refusing to ever marry, but in many other more subtle ways that defined her court--was influenced by her mother's legacy. In its originality, Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I sheds new light on two of history's most famous women--the private desires, hopes, and fears that lay behind their dazzling public personas, and the surprising influence each had on the other during and after their lifetimes. In the process, Tracy Borman reframes our understanding of the entire Tudor era"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Borman continues her amazing research and work on the Tudors by connecting Elizabeth I's actions and writings with her mother Anne Boleyn's life. As queen, Elizabeth combines her father's legacy while subtly including her mother's influences. Borman does well with this connection, showing how Elizabeth balances keeping her mother's spirit alive while walking that fine line between legitimacy, her father's legacy, and the need to prove herself as a female ruler. I greatly enjoyed seeing these connections and welcome the scholarship being published in the last couple of decades that tries to provide a truer picture of Anne Boleyn. ( )