The Paston letters have long exercised a tremendous fascination for their capacity to recreate in vivid detail the lives of an ordinary well-to-do fifteenth-century family. H. S. Bennett's classic study recreates beautifully their historical context and offers the additional perspectives provided by the letters of their correspondents: bishops and serving men, prisoners and dukes, priests and ribald companions. Among the intriguing areas of late medieval life which are explored are marriage, women's lives, education, travelling, the law and lawlessness, the clergy and the changing face of the English countryside. This account of the Pastons' England reveals an age of historical transition as it was played out in the daily challenges of individual lives.
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'... a book of real value, and of engrossing interest to the reader who has the faintest spark of historical imagination'. The Daily Telegraph
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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.
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slow reading but nevertheless a great historical record,
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This review is from: The Pastons and their England: Studies in an Age of Transition (Canto original series) (Paperback)
The Pastons and their England by H.S. Bennett is a interesting story about the lives of a 15th century family and their struggle and truimphs along the way. This book is a great reference through the letters written by various family matters for historical matters. If you are a history major in college or just a history fanatic this book is one you can't let slip through your hands.
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THE PASTONS, as behoved any family with pretensions to gentility, claimed their descent from a Norman ancestor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
good fatherhood, domestic chaplain, manor court Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir John, John Paston, Margaret Paston, Paston Letters, Lord Molynes, Sir James, William Paston, Duke of Norfolk, Agnes Paston, Richard Calle, Sir Thomas, Duke of Suffolk, Pastor Letters, Anne Haute, Bishop of Norwich, Clement Paston, Caister Castle, City of London, Dame Elizabeth Browne, Lord Scales, Public Works, Sheriff of Norfolk, Wars of the Roses, William Tresham, Bishop of Winchester New!
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THE PASTONS, as behoved any family with pretensions to gentility, claimed their descent from a Norman ancestor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
good fatherhood, domestic chaplain, manor court Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir John, John Paston, Margaret Paston, Paston Letters, Lord Molynes, Sir James, William Paston, Duke of Norfolk, Agnes Paston, Richard Calle, Sir Thomas, Duke of Suffolk, Pastor Letters, Anne Haute, Bishop of Norwich, Clement Paston, Caister Castle, City of London, Dame Elizabeth Browne, Lord Scales, Public Works, Sheriff of Norfolk, Wars of the Roses, William Tresham, Bishop of Winchester New!
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- The Paston Letters by James Gairdner on 4 pages
- The Parliament of Birds (Hesperus Poetry) by Geoffrey Chaucer on page 113, and Back Matter
- English Gilds (Early English Text Society Original Series) by L. Toulmin Smith in Front Matter
- Town Life in the Fifteenth Century by Alice Stopford Green in Front Matter
- The Siege of Thebes (TEAMS Middle English Texts Kalamazoo) by John Lydgate in Back Matter
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- Telling Tales: Sources and Narration in Late Medieval England by Joel Thomas Rosenthal on 7 pages
- Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England by Rebecca Krug on 5 pages
- Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies on 4 pages
- Writing the Family Narrative by Lawrence P. Gouldrup on 4 pages
- The Laborer's Two Bodies: Labor and the "Work" of the Text in Medieval Britain, 1350-1500 (New Middle Ages) by Kellie Robertson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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