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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... husband refuses to admit to himself that his wife is going to die. Amidst all the light which the Verneys' story sheds on life in seventeenth-century England, this haunting vulnerability is a shadow that lingers. We know the Verneys ...
... husband refuses to admit to himself that his wife is going to die. Amidst all the light which the Verneys' story sheds on life in seventeenth-century England, this haunting vulnerability is a shadow that lingers. We know the Verneys ...
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... husband, Henry VII. As a result (and in spite of the flirtation with treason during the 15-5-os), the family managed to thrive for most of the sixteenth century. A Verney attended Catherine of Aragon at the Field of the Cloth of Gold ...
... husband, Henry VII. As a result (and in spite of the flirtation with treason during the 15-5-os), the family managed to thrive for most of the sixteenth century. A Verney attended Catherine of Aragon at the Field of the Cloth of Gold ...
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... husband's reputation pursued her. She was described by a contemporary gossip as "widow to him that turned Turk," while her new father-in-law, a Buckinghamshire landowner named Sir William Clarke, promptly threatened to disinherit his U ...
... husband's reputation pursued her. She was described by a contemporary gossip as "widow to him that turned Turk," while her new father-in-law, a Buckinghamshire landowner named Sir William Clarke, promptly threatened to disinherit his U ...
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... husband for one of his two daughters. Marriage to a Catholic Hapsburg was an appalling prospect for the prince, but entirely in accordance with his father's efforts to steer a middle way through the religious minefield that was Europe ...
... husband for one of his two daughters. Marriage to a Catholic Hapsburg was an appalling prospect for the prince, but entirely in accordance with his father's efforts to steer a middle way through the religious minefield that was Europe ...
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... husband predeceased her. The estate at Mursley that Sir Edmund had inherited when he turned twenty-one brought in only half that amount, so this was something of a problem. After the two families met at Hillesden to discuss a way ...
... husband predeceased her. The estate at Mursley that Sir Edmund had inherited when he turned twenty-one brought in only half that amount, so this was something of a problem. After the two families met at Hillesden to discuss a way ...
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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