Earls of ParadiseHarperPress, 2008 - 298 páginas A fascinating portrait of a family, a portrait, and a quarrel with a king that would tear that family apart. To tell this story from the 1520s to the 1640s, Adam Nicolson takes a single great family, the Earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants and allies, and follows their high and glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, nostalgia, ambition, resistance and war. The Pembrokes straddled their world, politicking at court, while on their vast estates in Wiltshire maintaining the customs of the manor and setting up the hunting parks, great houses and sophisticated gardens which constituted their vision of perfection. It was an England caught up in its first taste of modernity, yet divided over how to react to it, split between the old and the new, the moment at which the world we have lost turned into the world it has now become. |
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The Dream of Perfection | 1 |
A lovely campania | 9 |
And is not euery manor a little common wealth? | 22 |
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