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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... century." —Ross King, author of Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and Brunelleschi's Dome "What a family: a royalist martyr; an obsessive gambler; a Damascus-based entrepreneur; a cousin hanged at Tyburn; assorted madwomen; and a ...
... century." —Ross King, author of Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and Brunelleschi's Dome "What a family: a royalist martyr; an obsessive gambler; a Damascus-based entrepreneur; a cousin hanged at Tyburn; assorted madwomen; and a ...
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... century blows in on us . . . but it is not dark. We are in a strange, far country that is suddenly made as bright and real as day." -The Daily Telegraph (UK) "[An] absorbing chronicle of a prominent seventeenth-century English family ...
... century blows in on us . . . but it is not dark. We are in a strange, far country that is suddenly made as bright and real as day." -The Daily Telegraph (UK) "[An] absorbing chronicle of a prominent seventeenth-century English family ...
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A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England Adrian Tinniswood. ALSO BY ADRIAN TINNISWOOD By ... Centuries of Country House Pisiting r Visions of Tower: Ambition and Architecture from Ancient Times to the Tresent ...
A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England Adrian Tinniswood. ALSO BY ADRIAN TINNISWOOD By ... Centuries of Country House Pisiting r Visions of Tower: Ambition and Architecture from Ancient Times to the Tresent ...
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... century) © Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, UK/National Trust Photographic Library/Andrew Butler/The Bridgeman Art ... century England / Adrian Tinniswood. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-5-9448-945-8 I ...
... century) © Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, UK/National Trust Photographic Library/Andrew Butler/The Bridgeman Art ... century England / Adrian Tinniswood. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-5-9448-945-8 I ...
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... century assumed that the Post Office opened the mail, and they were quite right. During the 165-os, for example, Cromwell's Secretary of State, John Thurloe, employed a team of men to intercept and examine mail in a secret room next ...
... century assumed that the Post Office opened the mail, and they were quite right. During the 165-os, for example, Cromwell's Secretary of State, John Thurloe, employed a team of men to intercept and examine mail in a secret room next ...
Table des matières
1 | |
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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