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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... Commons and the Lords in 1598 . To complicate matters further , in 1599 Sir Edmund and Lady Mary de- cided to cement their families ' fortunes by marrying Francis to his stepsis- ter , Ursula St. Barbe . Lady Mary's daughter by her ...
... Commons and the Lords in 1598 . To complicate matters further , in 1599 Sir Edmund and Lady Mary de- cided to cement their families ' fortunes by marrying Francis to his stepsis- ter , Ursula St. Barbe . Lady Mary's daughter by her ...
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... Commons , when MPs were asked to repeal the act " for Confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Verney , Wife of Sir Edmund Verney Knight , " which had been passed seven years earlier . The bill passed its first reading , and on ...
... Commons , when MPs were asked to repeal the act " for Confirmation of the Jointure of the Lady Verney , Wife of Sir Edmund Verney Knight , " which had been passed seven years earlier . The bill passed its first reading , and on ...
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... Commons for more than seventy years . The escapade in Madrid also brought him closer to Prince Charles , and reinforced the young courtier's conviction that in all honor his place was by the prince's side , right or wrong . Charles was ...
... Commons for more than seventy years . The escapade in Madrid also brought him closer to Prince Charles , and reinforced the young courtier's conviction that in all honor his place was by the prince's side , right or wrong . Charles was ...
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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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