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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... force in Stuart England. But a diary is always a monologue. Events are given a particular spin, made to conform to a single worldview, often rewritten long afterward with the raw emotion filtered out. The Verneys' story is a series of ...
... force in Stuart England. But a diary is always a monologue. Events are given a particular spin, made to conform to a single worldview, often rewritten long afterward with the raw emotion filtered out. The Verneys' story is a series of ...
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... force of around 1oo Englishmen was fighting in the service of Moulay Zhadane, one of several claimants competing for the throne of Morocco. Through his uncle's marriage to Lettice Giffard, Francis was related to their commander, Captain ...
... force of around 1oo Englishmen was fighting in the service of Moulay Zhadane, one of several claimants competing for the throne of Morocco. Through his uncle's marriage to Lettice Giffard, Francis was related to their commander, Captain ...
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... force them to give information about wealthy passengers and valuables that might be hidden aboard, and to add a sense of urgency to their letters home, so that relatives would make haste to produce a ransom. "My patroon [slavemaster] ...
... force them to give information about wealthy passengers and valuables that might be hidden aboard, and to add a sense of urgency to their letters home, so that relatives would make haste to produce a ransom. "My patroon [slavemaster] ...
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... force in Buckinghamshire. Sir Thomas had served as high sheriff for the county in 15-97, and sat as an MP in the Parliament summoned by James I when he succeeded to the throne in 1603. His wife Susan was one of the Temples of Stowe. The ...
... force in Buckinghamshire. Sir Thomas had served as high sheriff for the county in 15-97, and sat as an MP in the Parliament summoned by James I when he succeeded to the throne in 1603. His wife Susan was one of the Temples of Stowe. The ...
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... force under the Emperor Ferdinand at the Battle of the White Mountain, and James I's son-in-law lost his crown, his kingdom, and his palatinate. A union between the Infanta Maria and Prince Charles might encourage the king of Spain to ...
... force under the Emperor Ferdinand at the Battle of the White Mountain, and James I's son-in-law lost his crown, his kingdom, and his palatinate. A union between the Infanta Maria and Prince Charles might encourage the king of Spain to ...
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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