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A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England

A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England

Gies, Frances
Gies, Joseph

Paperback

Series: Medieval Life

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryAnthropologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0060930551
ISBN13: 9780060930554
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Aug 4 1999
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

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.

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