Blood & roses: the Paston family in the fifteenth century
by Castor, Helen.
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BookPublisher: Faber 2004ISBN: 9780571216703; 0571216706.Classification number: 942.0409 CASSubject(s): Paston Family -- Correspondence | Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485Subject: The Paston letters are the oldest surviving family correspondence in English, written during the Wars of the Roses. The author sets out the letters in the context of those turbulent times, relating the tangled politics of the family's affairs to those of the nation as a whole.
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Bibliography: p. 305-307
Includes index
The Paston letters are the oldest surviving family correspondence in English, written during the Wars of the Roses. The author sets out the letters in the context of those turbulent times, relating the tangled politics of the family's affairs to those of the nation as a whole.
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