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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... arrived in England at the end of 1539 for her brief marriage to Henry VIII . Never at the center of power , the Verneys could usually be found hovering on the edges of one important royal circle or another . By 1558 , when Francis's ...
... arrived in England at the end of 1539 for her brief marriage to Henry VIII . Never at the center of power , the Verneys could usually be found hovering on the edges of one important royal circle or another . By 1558 , when Francis's ...
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... arrived in Youghal on the coast of County Cork to find the harbor filled with eleven corsair ships and around a thousand men; he wisely decided that discretion was the better part, and quietly withdrew. (According to one reformed pirate ...
... arrived in Youghal on the coast of County Cork to find the harbor filled with eleven corsair ships and around a thousand men; he wisely decided that discretion was the better part, and quietly withdrew. (According to one reformed pirate ...
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... arrival of a male heir meeting with general rejoicing . Hillesden was also the venue for the delivery of the Verneys ' next seven children , who ar- rived at alarmingly short intervals : Thomas on November 2 , 1615 ; Edmund on November ...
... arrival of a male heir meeting with general rejoicing . Hillesden was also the venue for the delivery of the Verneys ' next seven children , who ar- rived at alarmingly short intervals : Thomas on November 2 , 1615 ; Edmund on November ...
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... arrived at the English ambassador's lodgings in Madrid , the House of the Seven Chimneys off the Calle de Alcala . Buckingham went in and announced to an astonished and appalled Sir John Digby that the young man holding the horses at ...
... arrived at the English ambassador's lodgings in Madrid , the House of the Seven Chimneys off the Calle de Alcala . Buckingham went in and announced to an astonished and appalled Sir John Digby that the young man holding the horses at ...
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... arrival of mules to carry them to Madrid and generally engaging in what has , from time immemorial , been the fa- vorite ... arrived , and very soon Sir Edmund and his friends be- gan to think Santander was not such a bad place after all ...
... arrival of mules to carry them to Madrid and generally engaging in what has , from time immemorial , been the fa- vorite ... arrived , and very soon Sir Edmund and his friends be- gan to think Santander was not such a bad place after all ...
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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