Status Updates From Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions

The temptation not to finish this is huge because proposing Anne was guilty of adultery is one thing, but then actually hearing Bernard’s argument is another.

His argument is “maybe this… maybe that” 😭

I just feel like he doesn’t like women and is possibly a big fan of Henry VIII. Ugh why can’t we have history where you can have great analysis of Henry, but not shit on the women!

This book starts off strong, but its arguments are getting weaker with every turn of the page.

I have never understood historians that doubt all of the logical arguments, but to only replace it with barely anything. This book argues that Anne was at least guilty some of the charges of adultery because of a poem and with everything else he takes the evidence and just doubts it and we aren’t really left withmuchelse

Found this in amongst a number of other Anne Boleyn books that all say Henry didn’t do it, whoever stocks the books at the Tower certainly has a very firm belief that Henry thought Anne was genuinely guilty and doesn’t want anyone else thinking otherwise. I certainly found it very interesting considering if you watch a documentary or read most historians opinions on the subject you will get the opposite.

“If you are not an historian teaching at a university and keeping up with the books and articles written by university historians on Tudor history, you might be surprised that few of them believe that Henry VIII was so dominant a ruler and so forceful a man that he would or could have destroyed Anne Boleyn on a whim”

I love Bernard’s audacity

have we just come full circle back to calling anne boleyn a whore