The Paston Letters

Author : Norman Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0192836404

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The Paston Letters by Norman Davis Pdf

"The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in English."--BOOK JACKET. "The letters span three generations and most were written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III, in a period of political turmoil, local anarchy and war abroad and at home. They reveal personal hopes and anxieties, and contain as well as business matters a wealth of information on leisure pursuits, education, and domestic life. The writers express themselves with a clarity and vigour that is remarkable at this early date, and the letters illustrate, as no other documents can, the state of the language in daily use immediately before and after the introduction of printing."--BOOK JACKET. "This modernized selection prepared from the original manuscripts is designed to present the full range of the Pastons' principal concerns."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN : OCLC:1371492056

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Paston Letters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Diane Watt
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843840243

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The Paston Women by Diane Watt Pdf

The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing.

Author : James Gairdner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108017671

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The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509 by James Gairdner Pdf

The Paston Letters, voicing the personal and political concerns of one Norfolk family, illuminate one of England's most tumultuous times.

Author : John Fenn,Alice Drayton Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015008270707

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Selections from the Paston Letters by John Fenn,Alice Drayton Greenwood Pdf

Author : Norman Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : England
ISBN : LCCN:2005270119

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Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century by Norman Davis Pdf

Author : Susan Signe-Morrison
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785700804

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A Medieval Woman's Companion by Susan Signe-Morrison Pdf

What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous souls who worked in fields dominated by men, women might not have the presence they currently do in professions such as education, the law, and literature. Focusing on women from Western Europe between c. 300 and 1500 CE in the medieval period and richly carpeted with detail, A Medieval Woman’s Companion offers a wealth of information about real medieval women who are now considered vital for understanding the Middle Ages in a full and nuanced way. Short biographies of 20 medieval women illustrate how they have anticipated and shaped current concerns, including access to education; creative emotional outlets such as art, theater, romantic fiction, and music; marriage and marital rights; fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, contraception and gynecology; sex trafficking and sexual violence; the balance of work and family; faith; and disability. Their legacy abides until today in attitudes to contemporary women that have their roots in the medieval period. The final chapter suggests how 20th and 21st century feminist and gender theories can be applied to and complicated by medieval women's lives and writings. Doubly marginalized due to gender and the remoteness of the time period, medieval women’s accomplishments are acknowledged and presented in a way that readers can appreciate and find inspiring. Ideal for high school and college classroom use in courses ranging from history and literature to women's and gender studies, an accompanying website with educational links, images, downloadable curriculum guide, and interactive blog will be made available at the time of publication.

Author : Richard Barber
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843831112

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The Pastons by Richard Barber Pdf

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.

Author : H. S. Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521398266

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The Pastons and Their England by H. S. Bennett Pdf

The Paston letters recreate through correspondence the lives of an ordinary affluent 15th century family, revealing many aspects of everyday life as well as the changing face of the medieval English countryside.

Author : Rebecca Krug
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501731822

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Reading Families by Rebecca Krug Pdf

Rebecca Krug argues that in the later Middle Ages, people defined themselves in terms of family relationships but increasingly saw their social circumstances as being connected to the written word. Complex family dynamics and social configurations motivated women to engage in text-based activities. Although not all or even the majority of women could read and write, it became natural for women to think of writing as a part of everyday life.Reading Families looks at the literate practice of two individual women, Margaret Paston and Margaret Beaufort, and of two communities in which women were central, the Norwich Lollards and the Bridgettines at Syon Abbey. The book begins with Paston's letters, which were written at her husband's request, and ends with devotional texts that describe the spiritual daughterhood of the Bridgettine readers.Scholars often assume that medieval women's participation in literate culture constituted a rejection of patriarchal authority. Krug maintains, however, that for most women learning to engage with the written word served as a practical response to social changes and was not necessarily a revolutionary act.

Author : J. Rosenthal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230111462

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Margaret Paston’s Piety by J. Rosenthal Pdf

Drawing on a close reading of nearly forty years' worth of personal letters and her will, and incorporating new archival material, Margaret Paston emerges from this study as the best example we have of how lay piety was negotiated and integrated into daily medieval life.

Author : Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110923223

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Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics by Alexander Bergs Pdf

The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. In the three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English “i>h-th-wh-take, make, give, have, do plus deverbal noun). While the study aims at a balanced integration of theories and methods from a number of different approaches in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, typology, and language change, its main focus is social network theory and the role of the linguistic individual in the formation and change of language structures. Questions of individual language use and of deliberate versus unmonitored changes in the (individual) system take center stage and are discussed in the light of social network analysis. Traditional empirical social network analysis is carefully revised. Despite its many merits in present-day sociolinguistics, it often needs to be supplemented by hermeneutic-biographical analyses of the individual speakers' lives when applied to historical data. With this background, common theories and models of language change, such as grammaticalization, paradigmatic pressure, typological alignment, and generational shifts, are illustrated and evaluated from the point of view of single speakers and social groups, and their particular embedding in the speech community through various network structures. The book is of interest to advanced students and researchers in English and general linguistics, Middle English, historical linguistics and language change, corpus linguistics, as well as sociolinguistics.

Author : James Gairdner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCI:31970004437486

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The Paston Letters: 1422-1509 A.D. A Reprint of the Edition of 1872-5, which Contained Upwards of Five Hundred Letters, Etc., Till Then Unpublished, to which are Now Added Others in a Supplement After the Introduction: Edward IV by James Gairdner Pdf

Author : Frances Gies,Joseph Gies
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0060930551

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A Medieval Family by Frances Gies,Joseph Gies Pdf

The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies. The Pastons were members of the English gentry—a tiny group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the peasants, and a rough analog for the contemporary “middle class.” Their existence was fairly typical, but for the fact that it was recorded in an extraordinary collection of nearly 1,000 letters which have survived to this day. Through these letters, which cover the years from 1421 to 1484, and the lives of three generations of Pastons, bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies provide a rare window into the day-to-day life of this family, and the broader political and social goings-on of medieval England. A Medieval Family first tells the story of Judge William Paston (1378-1444), the patriarch of the family, a lawyer and judge who bought up land in Norfolk and left his son a sizeable estate, which was later forcibly seized by a neighboring baron. We then follow the family through its ups and downs over several generations, learning of their feuds with neighbors, the frequent instability of 15th century England, and significant historical events, such as the Siege of Caister and the Battle of Barnet. There are also many letters of more personal significance, including a series of Valentines sent to John Paston III. The work of acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies has been used by George R.R. Martin in his research for Game of Thrones. In A Medieval Family, they have woven a compelling intergenerational saga that is essential reading for anyone seeking insight into the medieval period. “The Gieses, who specialize in making the Middle Ages accessible to nonspecialists, have done a wonderful job of linking and amplifying the Pastons’ words.”–New Yorker

Author : James Gairdner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HNJR1X

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The Paston Letters. 1422-1509. A. D. by James Gairdner Pdf