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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... VERNEY This portrait was painted a few months before he left for the Levant . Second son of Sir Edmund and Lady Margaret , and the black sheep of the family . A complicated mixture of lecherous clown , tender father , and loving husband .
... VERNEY This portrait was painted a few months before he left for the Levant . Second son of Sir Edmund and Lady Margaret , and the black sheep of the family . A complicated mixture of lecherous clown , tender father , and loving husband .
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... husband re- fuses to admit to himself that his wife is going to die . Amidst all the light which the Verneys ' story sheds on life in seventeenth - century England , this haunting vulnerability is a shadow that lingers . We know the ...
... husband re- fuses to admit to himself that his wife is going to die . Amidst all the light which the Verneys ' story sheds on life in seventeenth - century England , this haunting vulnerability is a shadow that lingers . We know the ...
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... husband , Henry VII . As a result ( and in spite of the flirtation with treason during the 1550s ) , the family managed to thrive for most of the six- teenth century . A Verney attended Catherine of Aragon at the Field of the Cloth of ...
... husband , Henry VII . As a result ( and in spite of the flirtation with treason during the 1550s ) , the family managed to thrive for most of the six- teenth century . A Verney attended Catherine of Aragon at the Field of the Cloth of ...
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... husband's reputation pursued her . She was described by a contemporary gos- sip as " widow to him that turned Turk , " while her new father - in - law , a Buck- inghamshire landowner named Sir William Clarke , promptly threatened to ...
... husband's reputation pursued her . She was described by a contemporary gos- sip as " widow to him that turned Turk , " while her new father - in - law , a Buck- inghamshire landowner named Sir William Clarke , promptly threatened to ...
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... husband for one of his two daughters . Mar- riage to a Catholic Hapsburg was an appalling prospect for the prince , but entirely in accordance with his father's efforts to steer a middle way through the religious minefield that was ...
... husband for one of his two daughters . Mar- riage to a Catholic Hapsburg was an appalling prospect for the prince , but entirely in accordance with his father's efforts to steer a middle way through the religious minefield that 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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