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The Pastons - A Family in the Wars of the Roses (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R617
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The Pastons - A Family in the Wars of the Roses (Paperback, New Ed): Richard Barber

The Pastons - A Family in the Wars of the Roses (Paperback, New Ed)

Richard Barber

Series: First Person Singular

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Attractive selection conveys well their recurrent concerns with land, money, civil violence, flirtation, marriage, and the purchase of ginger and lace. MEDIUM AEVUM Vivid first-hand accounts of life in England at the time ofthe Wars of the Roses, presented in their historical context. Essential reading on the English middle ages. Within three generations (1426 to 1485), and through the dark anddangerous years of the Wars of the Roses, the Pastons establishedthemselves as a family of consequence, both in their native Norfolk andwithin court circles. Ambitious and highly mobile - womenfolk as wellas men - they kept in touch by correspondence, usually but notinvariably through the medium of a clerk. These letters, a raresurvival, break upon us across the centuries with the urgency, andsometimes the violence, of their preoccupations: defending property,fighting court cases, making the right alliances, and, on the domesticside, managing their estates, conducting their courtships, stockingtheir cupboards. Selected and presented here with Richard Barber'sinvaluable linking narrative, they bring the middle ages triumphantlyto life.

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Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: First Person Singular
Release date: October 2004
First published: 2004
Editors: Richard Barber
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 208
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-111-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 1-84383-111-2
Barcode: 9781843831112

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