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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... October of the same year a newsletter written in London passed on the rumor that "Sir Francis Verney, who is become a strong pirate upon the Barbary coast, hath seized the provision of wine coming for the King from Bordeaux."10 This was ...
... October of the same year a newsletter written in London passed on the rumor that "Sir Francis Verney, who is become a strong pirate upon the Barbary coast, hath seized the provision of wine coming for the King from Bordeaux."10 This was ...
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... October 1611 he fell sick with typhoid fever, which grew worse until he was forced to take to his bed. On Sunday, November 1, he was visited by his distraught family; in a poignant gesture, the eleven-year-old Prince Charles pressed a ...
... October 1611 he fell sick with typhoid fever, which grew worse until he was forced to take to his bed. On Sunday, November 1, he was visited by his distraught family; in a poignant gesture, the eleven-year-old Prince Charles pressed a ...
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... October s. The following month the prince canceled the proxy wedding until his brother-in-law should be restored to his palatinate, knowing full well that this was not going to happen. The expedition had been a disaster. Not only had ...
... October s. The following month the prince canceled the proxy wedding until his brother-in-law should be restored to his palatinate, knowing full well that this was not going to happen. The expedition had been a disaster. Not only had ...
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... October 1634, with his indentured servants, his flour and corn and fowling pieces. He passed his nineteenth birthday there, taking stock and getting to know a world that was both alien and familiar. There were forests of oak, ash, and ...
... October 1634, with his indentured servants, his flour and corn and fowling pieces. He passed his nineteenth birthday there, taking stock and getting to know a world that was both alien and familiar. There were forests of oak, ash, and ...
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... October 11, "that I may receive but one smiling and merry countenance from you, where I have formerly an angry, and frowning countenance. Then shall you see every day an amendment in me."38 Eleven days later, after Ralph had tried to ...
... October 11, "that I may receive but one smiling and merry countenance from you, where I have formerly an angry, and frowning countenance. Then shall you see every day an amendment in me."38 Eleven days later, after Ralph had tried to ...
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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 |
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Acknowledgments FII Notes | 513 |
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 - 2007 |
The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century ... Adrian Tinniswood Korlátozott előnézet - 2008 |
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