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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... asked James I's secretary of state , Robert Cecil , for permission to fell some timber that , he said , was growing on his own land and which would be his by right in a matter of months when he came of age . The reason for the urgency ...
... asked James I's secretary of state , Robert Cecil , for permission to fell some timber that , he said , was growing on his own land and which would be his by right in a matter of months when he came of age . The reason for the urgency ...
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... asked the Queen to fur- ther Edmund's interest with the prince . Edmund also had friends in Henry's household - Sir George Goring , with whom he had toured the Low Countries , was one of the gentlemen of the privy chamber . But his ...
... asked the Queen to fur- ther Edmund's interest with the prince . Edmund also had friends in Henry's household - Sir George Goring , with whom he had toured the Low Countries , was one of the gentlemen of the privy chamber . But his ...
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... asked for , and also offered the young couple four years ' free board at Hillesden . If Prince Henry's death cast a shadow over Edmund's career prospects , it did nothing to prevent the wedding , which took place at Hillesden on ...
... asked for , and also offered the young couple four years ' free board at Hillesden . If Prince Henry's death cast a shadow over Edmund's career prospects , it did nothing to prevent the wedding , which took place at Hillesden on ...
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... asked outright for the lieutenancy of Whaddon Chase , a medieval hunt- ing forest to the east of Buckingham . Steenie was keeper of the chase , and his response - given via one of his servants , Sir Richard Graham - is a perfect example ...
... asked outright for the lieutenancy of Whaddon Chase , a medieval hunt- ing forest to the east of Buckingham . Steenie was keeper of the chase , and his response - given via one of his servants , Sir Richard Graham - is a perfect example ...
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... asked the court to exact £ 20 damages from Richard of Cotgrave , who had knocked out five of her teeth the previous week within the verge ( which was then in Nottinghamshire , because that was where the king happened to be ) . He was ...
... asked the court to exact £ 20 damages from Richard of Cotgrave , who had knocked out five of her teeth the previous week within the verge ( which was then in Nottinghamshire , because that was where the king happened to be ) . He was ...
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 - 2007 |
The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century ... Adrian Tinniswood Korlátozott előnézet - 2008 |
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