The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses

Richard Barber (Curatore)

Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2004

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.

• Curatore: Richard Barber
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Collana: First Person Singular
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 208 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 265 gr.
• EAN: 9781843831112

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