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The Paston Family In The Fifteenth Century
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Author : Colin Richmond
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Paston Family In The Fifteenth Century written by Colin Richmond and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with England categories.
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.
The Paston Family In The Fifteenth Century Volume 1 The First Phase
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Author : Colin Richmond
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-16
The Paston Family In The Fifteenth Century Volume 1 The First Phase written by Colin Richmond and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-16 with History categories.
This volume describes, in lively and original style, the beginnings of the family's gentility.
The Paston Family In The Fifteenth Century
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Author : Colin Richmond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Paston Family In The Fifteenth Century written by Colin Richmond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Electronic books categories.
The Paston family have long been famous for the large collection of letters and papers which bear their name. However, only recently have the 'Paston Letters' been used systematically by historians of fifteenth-century England: they are both attractive to read and fiendishly difficult to use as source material for the historian. This, the second volume in Colin Richmond's individual and compelling study of the Pastons, describes the bitter disputes over the will of Sir John Fastolf (d. 1459) which dogged the family for many years, and which hold a wider significance for the law, English country society, and the complex politics of the fifteenth century. Professor Richmond uses his mastery of the Paston documents to illuminate many obscurities surrounding the will, and at the same time creates an insightful and sympathetic picture of this fascinating, often troubled family.
The Paston Family In The Fifteenth Century Volume 1 The First Phase
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Author : Colin Richmond
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-09-27
The Paston Family In The Fifteenth Century Volume 1 The First Phase written by Colin Richmond and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-27 with History categories.
The Pastons of Paston, Norfolk, are famous for the collection of letters and papers which bear their name. In particular 'the Paston Letters' have been well known since the time of Horace Walpole, although until now they have never been used systematically by historians of fifteenth-century England: they are both immensely attractive to read and fiendishly difficult to use as source material from which to write history. This volume describes, in lively and original style, the beginnings of the family's gentility and sets out some of the major themes of their history between 1400 and 1500. Many of the themes are common to all gentry families of the later Middle Ages, a period critical in the formation of the English polity. It might also be said that the Pastons epitomize a class which since the later Middle Ages has dominated the English state, English society and English culture.
The Paston Family In The Fifteenth Century Volume 2 Fastolf S Will
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Author : Colin Richmond
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-16
The Paston Family In The Fifteenth Century Volume 2 Fastolf S Will written by Colin Richmond and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-16 with History categories.
Individual and compelling study of the famous Paston letters, by a highly original scholar.
Blood And Roses
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Author : Helen Castor
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-11-03
Blood And Roses written by Helen Castor and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with Literary Collections categories.
The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. As they made their way in a disintegrating world, the Paston family in Norfolk family were writing letters - about politics, about business, about shopping, about love and about each other, including the first valentine. Using these letters - the oldest surviving family correspondence in English - Helen Castor traces the extraordinary history of the Paston family across three generations. Blood & Roses tells the dramatic, moving and intensely human story of how one family survived one of the most tempestuous periods in English history. Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and winner of the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006.
Medieval Family
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Author : Frances Gies
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Medieval Family written by Frances Gies and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with History categories.
Presents letters from a middle-class English family of the late Middle Ages.
A Medieval Family
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Author : Frances Gies
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-09-21
A Medieval Family written by Frances Gies and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-21 with History categories.
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
Illustrated Letters Of The Paston Family
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Author : Roger Virgoe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Illustrated Letters Of The Paston Family written by Roger Virgoe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with England categories.
Paston Letters And Papers Of The Fifteenth Century
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Author : Norman Davis
language : en
Publisher: Early English Text Society
Release Date : 2004
Paston Letters And Papers Of The Fifteenth Century written by Norman Davis and has been published by Early English Text Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. This is a reissue, with corrections, of the volume originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1971.