- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (6 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192836404
- ISBN-13: 978-0192836403
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #58 in Books > Biography > Historical > Britain > Norman to Medieval: 1001-1500
- #72 in Books > Biography > Historical > 1001-1500
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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. The letters span three generations and most were written during the reigns of HenryVI, 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 letter illustrate, as no other documents can, the state of the language in daily use immediately before and after the introduction of printing. This modernized selection prepared from the original manuscripts is designed to present the full range of the Pastons' principle concerns.
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This book is absolutely invaluable to the historian of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as it provides eyewitness accounts of some of the most important events of this troubled period of English history. It is also a fascinating read for itself giving the lives of the Paston family: their problems, thoughts and the events of their lives. This book is a must have for anyone interested in English history or simply in how people live their lives.
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England on the eve of the modern period was a troubled place, but the Pastons made the most of it, rising from Norfolk farming to national celebrity. Their letters (covering a period from about 1420 to 1503) give a remarkably modern idea of their characters and much fascinating information about daily life, society, commerce and the law. The women as well as the men in the family come over as extremely well informed. This seems to be the only edition in print at the moment. The entire collection was last published in two parts in 1971 and 1976, edited by Norman Davis, but the letters included here have been well selected. The Paston Letters make an eventful and informative read.
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