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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... commanded decent prices . The goods were often bought up by Jewish merchants , who prospered in such dynamic commercial environments and sold them back to dealers in Europe . It is perfectly possible that the consignment of Bordeaux ...
... commanded decent prices . The goods were often bought up by Jewish merchants , who prospered in such dynamic commercial environments and sold them back to dealers in Europe . It is perfectly possible that the consignment of Bordeaux ...
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... commanded to remain at anchor off Santander . At this point everyone , no matter where they were on the route , seems to have decided to head for Madrid , where at least they could hope for some clear instructions . They rode on pack ...
... commanded to remain at anchor off Santander . At this point everyone , no matter where they were on the route , seems to have decided to head for Madrid , where at least they could hope for some clear instructions . They rode on pack ...
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... commanded by the king , " all excuses and delays set apart , " to surrender Mary to Sir John Denham , lord chief baron of the exchequer . Denham had a country house some thirty miles away at Boarstall in Buckinghamshire , and the child ...
... commanded by the king , " all excuses and delays set apart , " to surrender Mary to Sir John Denham , lord chief baron of the exchequer . Denham had a country house some thirty miles away at Boarstall in Buckinghamshire , and the child ...
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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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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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