The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century EnglandPenguin, 2008. máj. 6. - 592 oldal 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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... August , where raw silk was bought and sold and dispatched all over the Aegean and the Le- vant , and where a mercenary's services might well be required as escort . Lithgow already knew something of Sir Francis's checkered background ...
... August , where raw silk was bought and sold and dispatched all over the Aegean and the Le- vant , and where a mercenary's services might well be required as escort . Lithgow already knew something of Sir Francis's checkered background ...
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... August 1623 , when temperatures in Madrid rose into the eighties , Buckingham caught a cold " and a little fit of an ague . " 26 He was bled and made a swift recovery , but the sickness spread through the prince of Wales's household ...
... August 1623 , when temperatures in Madrid rose into the eighties , Buckingham caught a cold " and a little fit of an ague . " 26 He was bled and made a swift recovery , but the sickness spread through the prince of Wales's household ...
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... August 15 , his Protestant soul still safe from popery , and his body was buried in the back garden of Digby's residence by the Calle de Alcala . * But the brawl was the cul- mination of several months of bickering and jostling between ...
... August 15 , his Protestant soul still safe from popery , and his body was buried in the back garden of Digby's residence by the Calle de Alcala . * But the brawl was the cul- mination of several months of bickering and jostling between ...
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... August 1 , the day after his letter arrived , she wrote back : For his necessary provisions , I ... have sent up a man furnished with such a proportion of money as you have writ for , and have made what haste I could to convey him ...
... August 1 , the day after his letter arrived , she wrote back : For his necessary provisions , I ... have sent up a man furnished with such a proportion of money as you have writ for , and have made what haste I could to convey him ...
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... August 3 , Tom was with Sadler in London , and on Au- gust 8 he and his goods were being stowed aboard the Merchant's Hope . Ei- ther Sadler had been unduly optimistic about the costs of the expedition , or Dame Margaret had decided her ...
... August 3 , Tom was with Sadler in London , and on Au- gust 8 he and his goods were being stowed aboard the Merchant's Hope . Ei- ther Sadler had been unduly optimistic about the costs of the expedition , or Dame Margaret had decided her ...
Tartalomjegyzék
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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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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century ... Adrian Tinniswood Korlátozott előnézet - 2008 |
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