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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... months of his life , standard - bearer to Charles I. MARGARET DENTON Margaret Denton of Hillesden , wife of Sir Edmund Verney . Lady Margaret was sensitive about exposing her scarred left arm , which makes this portrayal of her ...
... months of his life , standard - bearer to Charles I. MARGARET DENTON Margaret Denton of Hillesden , wife of Sir Edmund Verney . Lady Margaret was sensitive about exposing her scarred left arm , which makes this portrayal of her ...
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... portrait was painted a few months before he left for the Levant . Second son of Sir Edmund and Lady Margaret , and the black sheep of the family . A complicated mixture of lecherous clown , tender father , and loving husband .
... portrait was painted a few months before he left for the Levant . Second son of Sir Edmund and Lady Margaret , and the black sheep of the family . A complicated mixture of lecherous clown , tender father , and loving husband .
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... months to reach their destination . Many just disappeared . ) Addresses varied widely in their precision , their formality , and their flamboyance . There were no street numbers , so correspondents were some- times quite eloquent in ...
... months to reach their destination . Many just disappeared . ) Addresses varied widely in their precision , their formality , and their flamboyance . There were no street numbers , so correspondents were some- times quite eloquent in ...
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... 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 Cecil ...
... 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 Cecil ...
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... months . It also ensured his reputation as the best king that England never had : " Our rising sun is set ere scarce he had shone , " wrote the Earl of Dorset two weeks later , " ... all our glory lies buried . " 29 And the im- pact of ...
... months . It also ensured his reputation as the best king that England never had : " Our rising sun is set ere scarce he had shone , " wrote the Earl of Dorset two weeks later , " ... all our glory lies buried . " 29 And the im- pact of ...
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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