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Author : H. S. Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521398266
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 : Richard Barber
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843831112
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN : OCLC:1371492056
Author : Colin Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521520282
Individual and compelling study of the famous Paston letters, by a highly original scholar.
Author : Colin Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521520274
This volume describes, in lively and original style, the beginnings of the family's gentility.
Author : Norman Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0192836404
"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 : Colin Richmond
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : England
ISBN : 0719059909
This is the third and final volume in the trilogy by Colin Richmond on the Paston family in the 15th century, completing the sequence which began with The First Phase and continued with Fastolf's Will. This volume deals with the later years of the century and those topics and themes which arise at that point in the family's history. The principal characters are John Paston II, his younger brother John Paston III, and their mother, Margaret Paston. Richmond deals with a variety of issues, some of which have arisen in previous volumes and attempts some judgements on the role of the English gentry in the later middle ages.
Author : James Gairdner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : NYPL:33433075881072
Author : Diane Watt
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843840243
The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing.
Author : James Gairdner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z124356704
Author : James Gairdner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000223251
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000087028
Author : Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843840189
The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary, history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; "Sir John Mandeville"; John Trevisa, Reginald Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances, saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historical prose, anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors: BELLA MILLETT, RALPH HANNA III, AD PUTTER, KANTIK GHOSH, BARRY A. WINDEATT, A.C. SPEARING, IAN HIGGINS, A.S.G. EDWARDS, VINCENT GILLESPIE, HELEN L. SPENCER, ALFRED HIATT, FIONA SOMERSET, HELEN COOPER, GEORGE KEISER, OLIVER S. PICKERING, JAMES SIMPSON, RICHARD BEADLE, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE.
Author : James Gairdner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015004049238
Author : Norman Davis,Richard Beadle,Colin Richmond
Publisher : Early English Text Society
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0197224237
The Paston family papers have long been consulted for their infomation about social history and politics in the fiftenth century, both within East Anglia and also nationally. Parts I and II of Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, edited by Norman Davis, were originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1971 and 1976, and were reissued with corrections by EETS in 2004. Part III completes the edition. It contains the texts of 120 additional letters and papers, many of them relating to Sir John Fastolf and his circle. These texts are previously unprinted, or printed only in part; some only came to light after the publication of Parts I and II. The texts have been edited according to the principles established by Norman Davis, and are accompanied by an Introduction and Bibliography, as well as a consolidated index to all three parts of the edition, a glossary to the entire edition, a concordance of the principal editions and origal sources, and a working chronology of the documents. Richard Beadle is Reader in English Literature and Historical Bibliography at the University of Cambridge; Colin Richmond is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Keele.