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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... had taken him from Puritanism to Roman Catholicism by way of Islam, so the destination of Sir Francis Verney's soul was, to say the least, uncertain. Lithgow had met the notorious buccaneer in Palermo six weeks [ir] Francis Turns Turk.
... had taken him from Puritanism to Roman Catholicism by way of Islam, so the destination of Sir Francis Verney's soul was, to say the least, uncertain. Lithgow had met the notorious buccaneer in Palermo six weeks [ir] Francis Turns Turk.
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... weeks earlier, and both had subsequently traveled the 180 miles along the Sicilian coast to Messina. The Scot was a professional traveler, whose peregrinations had already taken him right across Europe and all around the Mediterranean ...
... weeks earlier, and both had subsequently traveled the 180 miles along the Sicilian coast to Messina. The Scot was a professional traveler, whose peregrinations had already taken him right across Europe and all around the Mediterranean ...
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... weeks later, "and he is said to have taken a much richer prize." " King James was so concerned at Francis's activities that he dispatched a ship of war to escort a convoy of merchant vessels en route for Aleppo in the Levant. Around the ...
... weeks later, "and he is said to have taken a much richer prize." " King James was so concerned at Francis's activities that he dispatched a ship of war to escort a convoy of merchant vessels en route for Aleppo in the Levant. Around the ...
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... the Earl of Dorset two weeks later, ". . . all our glory lies buried."19 And the impact of Henry's court on Edmund Verney lasted for the rest of his life. For one thing, his brief experience of life in a royal part I. Edmund and Ralph.
... the Earl of Dorset two weeks later, ". . . all our glory lies buried."19 And the impact of Henry's court on Edmund Verney lasted for the rest of his life. For one thing, his brief experience of life in a royal part I. Edmund and Ralph.
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... weeks later. King James, having allowed his son to undertake what he fondly described as "this knight-errant pilgrimage,"8 had managed at one fell swoop to upset Digby's marriage negotiations, which were at an extremely delicate stage ...
... weeks later. King James, having allowed his son to undertake what he fondly described as "this knight-errant pilgrimage,"8 had managed at one fell swoop to upset Digby's marriage negotiations, which were at an extremely delicate stage ...
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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