The Pastons and Their England

The Pastons and Their England
Title The Pastons and Their England PDF eBook
Author Henry Stanley Bennett
Publisher Cambridge : University Press
Pages 330
Release 1922
Genre History
ISBN

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Bibliography and collation of editions and original letters.

The Paston Letters

The Paston Letters
Title The Paston Letters PDF eBook
Author Norman Davis
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 324
Release 1999
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780192836403

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"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.

The Pastons

The Pastons
Title The Pastons PDF eBook
Author Richard Barber
Publisher Boydell Press
Pages 214
Release 2004
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781843831112

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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.

The Pastons and Their England

The Pastons and Their England
Title The Pastons and Their England PDF eBook
Author Henry Stanley Bennett
Publisher Cambridge : University Press
Pages 326
Release 1922
Genre History
ISBN

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Bibliography and collation of editions and original letters.

The Paston Treasure

The Paston Treasure
Title The Paston Treasure PDF eBook
Author Andrew W. Moore
Publisher Icons of the Luso-Hispanic World
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre Art
ISBN 9780300232905

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"This publication accompanies the exhibitions 'The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World' and 'The Paston Treasure: Riches and Rarities of the Known World', co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, on view 15 February-27 May 2018, and Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, on view 23 June-23 September 2018"--Colophon.

A Companion to Middle English Prose

A Companion to Middle English Prose
Title A Companion to Middle English Prose PDF eBook
Author Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards
Publisher DS Brewer
Pages 354
Release 2004
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781843840183

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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.

Gentry Culture in Late-Medieval England

Gentry Culture in Late-Medieval England
Title Gentry Culture in Late-Medieval England PDF eBook
Author Raluca Radulescu
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 238
Release 2005
Genre History
ISBN 9780719068256

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Essays in this collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late-medieval England. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behavior, and education, the reader is provided with an overview of how the group's culture evolved and how it was disseminated.