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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... James I's secretary of state, Robert Cecil, for permission to fell some timber that, he said, was growing on his own land and which would be his by right in a matter of months when he came of age. The reason for the urgency was that he ...
... James I's secretary of state, Robert Cecil, for permission to fell some timber that, he said, was growing on his own land and which would be his by right in a matter of months when he came of age. The reason for the urgency was that he ...
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... James I might eventually have found its way to its intended destination. The trading was a two- way process: the cannon, powder, and shot that corsairs used to subdue their victims were sometimes captured, but more often bought in ...
... James I might eventually have found its way to its intended destination. The trading was a two- way process: the cannon, powder, and shot that corsairs used to subdue their victims were sometimes captured, but more often bought in ...
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... James I proclaimed that his eldest son, Henry, was Prince of Wales. At the same time Prince Henry, who at sixteen was four years Edmund's junior, was given his own revenue, his own palaces at Richmond and St. James's, and his own ...
... James I proclaimed that his eldest son, Henry, was Prince of Wales. At the same time Prince Henry, who at sixteen was four years Edmund's junior, was given his own revenue, his own palaces at Richmond and St. James's, and his own ...
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... James I died before her, a hostile Henry IX could wreak havoc with her extravagant lifestyle. It may well be that Dame Mary asked the Queen to further Edmund's interest with the prince. Edmund also had friends in Henry's household — Sir ...
... James I died before her, a hostile Henry IX could wreak havoc with her extravagant lifestyle. It may well be that Dame Mary asked the Queen to further Edmund's interest with the prince. Edmund also had friends in Henry's household — Sir ...
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... James's Palace, and employing Henry IV's riding master Monsieur St. Antoine to teach him the highly mannered equine ballets that were then fashionable in France and Italy. To quote Bacon again, "he was much devoted to the magnificence ...
... James's Palace, and employing Henry IV's riding master Monsieur St. Antoine to teach him the highly mannered equine ballets that were then fashionable in France and Italy. To quote Bacon again, "he was much devoted to the magnificence ...
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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