Blood & roses : the Paston family in the fifteenth century
Castor, Helen2005
Books, Manuscripts
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.
Main title:
Blood & roses : the Paston family in the fifteenth century / Helen Castor.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Faber, 2005.
Collation:
xvii, 347 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-307) and index.
ISBN:
0571216714 (pbk)9780571216710
Dewey class:
942'.04'0922942.04
Language:
English
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BRN:
423298
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