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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... France to escape his creditors. After his death in 1791, his prim spinster niece Mary pulled down two- thirds of the house and sold land to pay off mortgages and debts, which seem to have amounted to more than £100,000. When Mary died ...
... France to escape his creditors. After his death in 1791, his prim spinster niece Mary pulled down two- thirds of the house and sold land to pay off mortgages and debts, which seem to have amounted to more than £100,000. When Mary died ...
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... France and the Netherlands; they traveled to the plantations of Barbados and the forests of Virginia; they took refuge in the desert fortresses of North Africa and traded in the souks of the Levant. Some of them looked on, appalled, at ...
... France and the Netherlands; they traveled to the plantations of Barbados and the forests of Virginia; they took refuge in the desert fortresses of North Africa and traded in the souks of the Levant. Some of them looked on, appalled, at ...
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... France, 8d. to Hamburg, Cologne, and Frankfurt, and 9d. to Paris, Venice, Rome, Geneva, and Naples. A letter to the Levant cost a shilling. Two sheets were charged at double the rate, which is why most of the Ver- ney letters were ...
... France, 8d. to Hamburg, Cologne, and Frankfurt, and 9d. to Paris, Venice, Rome, Geneva, and Naples. A letter to the Levant cost a shilling. Two sheets were charged at double the rate, which is why most of the Ver- ney letters were ...
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... France during the 164.0s they devised a system of code words for friends and relations. Sir Ralph's friend Sir Roger Burgoyne even resorted to a simple alphanumeric code whenever he mentioned the name of a government official. When ...
... France during the 164.0s they devised a system of code words for friends and relations. Sir Ralph's friend Sir Roger Burgoyne even resorted to a simple alphanumeric code whenever he mentioned the name of a government official. When ...
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... France, and eventually to Italy, in company with the great Jacobean diplomat Sir Henry Wootton, ambassador at Venice. Such an itinerary would be conventional enough for the Grand Tourists of the eighteenth century. In the early ...
... France, and eventually to Italy, in company with the great Jacobean diplomat Sir Henry Wootton, ambassador at Venice. Such an itinerary would be conventional enough for the Grand Tourists of the eighteenth century. In the early ...
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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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