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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... living in the country and weren't too far apart , the Verneys and their kin made use of servants , wagoners , and even the local clergy to carry their letters for them . The situation was slightly different in London , where many of ...
... living in the country and weren't too far apart , the Verneys and their kin made use of servants , wagoners , and even the local clergy to carry their letters for them . The situation was slightly different in London , where many of ...
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... living in a rather shady neighborhood just off Fleet Street , rather than in his stepmother's house in Drury Lane . There was nothing unusual in any of this : in seventeenth- century Oxford , around one in eight students were fifteen or ...
... living in a rather shady neighborhood just off Fleet Street , rather than in his stepmother's house in Drury Lane . There was nothing unusual in any of this : in seventeenth- century Oxford , around one in eight students were fifteen or ...
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... living look like another thing , " wrote one of Sir Edmund's companions.22 But if the prince's sartorial taste didn't impress his household officers , nor did his domestic arrangements . He had been given a small set of lodgings at the ...
... living look like another thing , " wrote one of Sir Edmund's companions.22 But if the prince's sartorial taste didn't impress his household officers , nor did his domestic arrangements . He had been given a small set of lodgings at the ...
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... living in the precincts of the palace , from senior officials like the secretary of state , the lord cham- berlain , and the earl marshal ( Thomas Howard , Earl of Arundel , who was Sir Edmund's immediate superior ) , to embroiderers ...
... living in the precincts of the palace , from senior officials like the secretary of state , the lord cham- berlain , and the earl marshal ( Thomas Howard , Earl of Arundel , who was Sir Edmund's immediate superior ) , to embroiderers ...
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... living with an aunt and uncle , Anne and Richard Lybbe , at Hardwick Court , an imposing Tudor manor house on the border between Oxfordshire and Berkshire ; and although by the terms of their agreement with the Court of Wards , her ...
... living with an aunt and uncle , Anne and Richard Lybbe , at Hardwick Court , an imposing Tudor manor house on the border between Oxfordshire and Berkshire ; and although by the terms of their agreement with the Court of Wards , her ...
Table des matières
1 | |
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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