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The Paston Women: Selected Letters (Paperback)
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The Paston Women: Selected Letters (Paperback)
Series: Library of Medieval Women
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The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's
writing and medieval letter writing. The Paston letters form one of
only two surviving collections of fifteenth-century correspondence,
in their case especially rich in letters from the women of the
family. Clandestine love affairs, secret marriages, violent family
rows, bickering with neighbours, battles and sieges, threats of
murder and kidnapping, fears of plague: these are just some of the
topics discussed in the letters of the Paston women. Diane Watt's
introduction seeks to place these letters in the context of
medieval women's writing and and medieval letter writing. Her
interpretive essay reconstructs the lives of these women by
examining what the letters reveal about women's literacy and
education, lifein the medieval household, religion and piety,
health and medicine, and love, marriage, family relationships, and
female friendships in the middle ages. Professor Diane Watt is Head
of the School of English and Languages, University of Surrey.
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