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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... things differently there. It's a proposition with which no historian can avoid grappling— and it lies at the heart of Adrian Tinniswood's wonderfully engaging biography of the Verneys, a family of Buckinghamshire gentry struggling to ...
... things differently there. It's a proposition with which no historian can avoid grappling— and it lies at the heart of Adrian Tinniswood's wonderfully engaging biography of the Verneys, a family of Buckinghamshire gentry struggling to ...
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... things that gentry families were meant to do. They fought in France and the Netherlands; they traveled to the plantations of Barbados and the forests of Virginia; they took refuge in the desert fortresses of North Africa and traded in ...
... things that gentry families were meant to do. They fought in France and the Netherlands; they traveled to the plantations of Barbados and the forests of Virginia; they took refuge in the desert fortresses of North Africa and traded in ...
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... things, and then can't understand the hurt they cause. And they lay themselves bare. An impoverished aunt pleads for money to pay her gambling debts, a defiant sister refuses to give up the father of her bastard child, a mother weeps ...
... things, and then can't understand the hurt they cause. And they lay themselves bare. An impoverished aunt pleads for money to pay her gambling debts, a defiant sister refuses to give up the father of her bastard child, a mother weeps ...
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... things their own way. They provided safe haven for the corsairs, and markets for their prizes — indeed, their percentage of the prize money was often the main source of public finances. They offered access to the caravan routes ...
... things their own way. They provided safe haven for the corsairs, and markets for their prizes — indeed, their percentage of the prize money was often the main source of public finances. They offered access to the caravan routes ...
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... the Earl of Dorset two weeks later, ". . . all our glory lies buried."19 And the impact of Henry's court on Edmund Verney lasted for the rest of his life. For one thing, his brief experience of life in a royal part I. Edmund and Ralph.
... the Earl of Dorset two weeks later, ". . . all our glory lies buried."19 And the impact of Henry's court on Edmund Verney lasted for the rest of his life. For one thing, his brief experience of life in a royal part I. Edmund and Ralph.
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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 |
20 | 499 |
Acknowledgments FII Notes | 513 |
Bibliography | 545 |
Index | 557 |
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