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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... matter of months when he came of age . The reason for the urgency was that he needed to raise cash " for the discharge of divers gentlemen that stood engaged as sureties for him . " 4 In his capacity as Master of the Court of Wards ...
... matter of months when he came of age . The reason for the urgency was that he needed to raise cash " for the discharge of divers gentlemen that stood engaged as sureties for him . " 4 In his capacity as Master of the Court of Wards ...
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... matter who went where . Fortunately for Henry , the scheme fell through . According to the En- glish history books , Philip was only prepared to offer his second daughter Maria , rather than the ten - year - old Infanta , Anne of ...
... matter who went where . Fortunately for Henry , the scheme fell through . According to the En- glish history books , Philip was only prepared to offer his second daughter Maria , rather than the ten - year - old Infanta , Anne of ...
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... matter what Sir Edmund might have thought of James as a man , his ex- perience of the court taught him to push those thoughts to one side and fo- cus on James as king , exercising divine power on earth . And even one as puritanically ...
... matter what Sir Edmund might have thought of James as a man , his ex- perience of the court taught him to push those thoughts to one side and fo- cus on James as king , exercising divine power on earth . And even one as puritanically ...
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... matter where they were on the route , seems to have decided to head for Madrid , where at least they could hope for some clear instructions . They rode on pack mules that had neither saddles nor bri- dles and did not take kindly to ...
... matter where they were on the route , seems to have decided to head for Madrid , where at least they could hope for some clear instructions . They rode on pack mules that had neither saddles nor bri- dles and did not take kindly to ...
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... matter of policy : Charles had to extract a promise from Philip to help re- store Frederick to the throne of Bohemia . He was also determined not to go home without his bride , believing that the Spanish were quite capable of reneging ...
... matter of policy : Charles had to extract a promise from Philip to help re- store Frederick to the throne of Bohemia . He was also determined not to go home without his bride , believing that the Spanish were quite capable of reneging ...
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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