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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... Prince of Wales . At the same time Prince Henry , who at six- teen was four years Edmund's junior , was given his own revenue , his own palaces at Richmond and St. James's , and his own household of four hun- dred courtiers and ...
... Prince of Wales . At the same time Prince Henry , who at six- teen was four years Edmund's junior , was given his own revenue , his own palaces at Richmond and St. James's , and his own household of four hun- dred courtiers and ...
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... Prince Henry's household . Then there was the redoubtable Lady Mary . Edmund's mother was on good terms with Anne of Denmark , and while it is true that Anne didn't get on particularly well with the prince - she tended to favor her ...
... Prince Henry's household . Then there was the redoubtable Lady Mary . Edmund's mother was on good terms with Anne of Denmark , and while it is true that Anne didn't get on particularly well with the prince - she tended to favor her ...
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... Prince 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 ...
... Prince 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 ...
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... prince patronized designers and artists of the caliber of Inigo Jones , the Huguenot miniaturist Isaac Oliver , the French garden designer Salomon de Caux , and the Florentine Constantino de ' Servi , who produced dramatic plans for ...
... prince patronized designers and artists of the caliber of Inigo Jones , the Huguenot miniaturist Isaac Oliver , the French garden designer Salomon de Caux , and the Florentine Constantino de ' Servi , who produced dramatic plans for ...
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... prince's brother , Charles , and remained a courtier until the day he died . Although he never became a dedicated ... Prince Henry did . He became the archetypal Protestant knight , imbued with a moral and religious puritanism , an ...
... prince's brother , Charles , and remained a courtier until the day he died . Although he never became a dedicated ... Prince Henry did . He became the archetypal Protestant knight , imbued with a moral and religious puritanism , an ...
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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