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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... Henry Dudley's 1555 plot to rob the Exchequer and use the money to gather an army of disaffected Protestants on the Isle of Wight . But the Verneys managed to combine their penchant for lost causes with some astute political matches ...
... Henry Dudley's 1555 plot to rob the Exchequer and use the money to gather an army of disaffected Protestants on the Isle of Wight . But the Verneys managed to combine their penchant for lost causes with some astute political matches ...
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... Henry Wootton , ambassador at Venice . Such an itinerary would be conventional enough for the Grand Tourists of the ... Henry , was Prince of Wales . At the same time Prince Henry , who at six- teen was four years Edmund's junior , was ...
... Henry Wootton , ambassador at Venice . Such an itinerary would be conventional enough for the Grand Tourists of the ... Henry , was Prince of Wales . At the same time Prince Henry , who at six- teen was four years Edmund's junior , was ...
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... Henry's governor since 1603 , who became chamberlain . Others were new to Henry and indeed to life at court - active , physical types , men with military experience in Europe , or at least with some prowess in the tilt- yard . One of ...
... Henry's governor since 1603 , who became chamberlain . Others were new to Henry and indeed to life at court - active , physical types , men with military experience in Europe , or at least with some prowess in the tilt- yard . One of ...
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... Henry's household was thus a strange and seductive mixture of earnest Protestantism and Renaissance charisma . Bacon wrote respectfully of how the prince was " wonderfully patient in hearing ... so that his mind seldom wandered from the ...
... Henry's household was thus a strange and seductive mixture of earnest Protestantism and Renaissance charisma . Bacon wrote respectfully of how the prince was " wonderfully patient in hearing ... so that his mind seldom wandered from the ...
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... Henry was dead . PRINCE HENRY'S DEATH meant the dissolution of his household , after only seventeen months . It also ensured his reputation as the best king that England never had : " Our rising sun is set ere scarce he had shone ...
... Henry was dead . PRINCE HENRY'S DEATH meant the dissolution of his household , after only seventeen months . It also ensured his reputation as the best king that England never had : " Our rising sun is set ere scarce he had shone ...
Table des matières
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A Little Fading Honor | 95 |
The Best of Men | 118 |
Fortunes Wheel Is Ever Turning | 137 |
This World Is Full of Changes | 157 |
IO A Strange Cruelty | 205 |
Mischief | 231 |
Oh My My Dear Dear | 253 |
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 |
He Grows Weary | 490 |
Acknowledgments | 511 |
Giro dItalia | 273 |
None but Princes | 299 |
Mend Me or End Me | 319 |
Perfect Empress of My Heart | 336 |
Bibliography | 545 |
Index | 557 |
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