The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century EnglandPenguin, 6 mai 2008 - 592 pages The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents. "To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes in this brilliant book. The Verney family's centuries-long practice of saving every piece of paper that came into their possession -- amassing some 100,000 pages of family and estate letters and documents -- resulted in the largest and most complete private collection of seventeenth-century correspondence in the Western world to date. They paint an incredibly accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies, through the everyday lives of one extraordinary family. |
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... English family. With characteristic aplomb, British architectural historian Tinniswood adjusts his gaze to focus on the aristocratic Verneys, who had a particularly fascinating— and occasionally sordid— history. Drawing upon [one of the] ...
... English family. With characteristic aplomb, British architectural historian Tinniswood adjusts his gaze to focus on the aristocratic Verneys, who had a particularly fascinating— and occasionally sordid— history. Drawing upon [one of the] ...
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... English Civil War. She rescued the portraits from their outhouses and put names to them; and in 1885- she published a short article on the history of Claydon. This was the prelude to a much more substantial work. With the help of her ...
... English Civil War. She rescued the portraits from their outhouses and put names to them; and in 1885- she published a short article on the history of Claydon. This was the prelude to a much more substantial work. With the help of her ...
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... English gallant," as Lithgow described him,1 must have killed more people with his own hands than he cared to remember. Now it was Verney's turn, and he was to die not on the gallows, as his family had expected, nor in some skirmish ...
... English gallant," as Lithgow described him,1 must have killed more people with his own hands than he cared to remember. Now it was Verney's turn, and he was to die not on the gallows, as his family had expected, nor in some skirmish ...
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... English gallant." He knew the man had spent his inheritance, fled from England, taken to piracy, and turned Turk in Tunis. In any case, the little bundle of belongings that lay beside the dying man's bed were testament to his culturally ...
... English gallant." He knew the man had spent his inheritance, fled from England, taken to piracy, and turned Turk in Tunis. In any case, the little bundle of belongings that lay beside the dying man's bed were testament to his culturally ...
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... English slave recalled in the 15-oos.14 Some were treated badly, others quite well. Apostasy loomed large in contemporary anti-Islamic European propaganda, along with the barbarity and cruelty of the "Mahometans," but in reality there ...
... English slave recalled in the 15-oos.14 Some were treated badly, others quite well. Apostasy loomed large in contemporary anti-Islamic European propaganda, along with the barbarity and cruelty of the "Mahometans," but in reality there ...
Table des matières
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15 | |
35 | |
57 | |
Will Provide | 79 |
A Little Fading Honor | 95 |
The Best of Men | 118 |
Fortunes Wheel Is Ever Turning | 137 |
Mend Me or End Me | 319 |
Perfect Empress of My Heart | 336 |
All the Physic in the World | 355 |
She Doth Not Rave | 379 |
The Levant Trader | 396 |
Natural Bias | 421 |
Good Husbandry | 446 |
Without Escutcheons | 466 |
This World Is Full of Changes | 157 |
IO A Strange Cruelty | 205 |
Mischief | 231 |
Oh My My Dear Dear | 253 |
Giro dItalia | 273 |
MUN AND JACK | 297 |
None but Princes | 299 |
He Grows Weary | 490 |
20 | 499 |
Acknowledgments FII Notes | 513 |
Bibliography | 545 |
Index | 557 |
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