Title
- Library Of Medieval Women, 1369-9652
Attribution
translated from the Middle English with introduction, notes and interpretive essay [by] Diane WattPublication Details
BookD.S. Brewer2004Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DA240 .P37 2004 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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The Paston letters form one of only two surviving collections of fifteenth-century correspondence, in their case especially rich in letters from the women of the family. Her interpretive essay reconstructs the lives of these women by examining what the letters reveal about women’s literacy and education, life in the medieval household, religion and piety, health and medicine, and love, marriage, family relationships, and female friendships in the middle ages. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Paston family — Correspondence
- Women — England — History — Middle Ages, 500-1500 — Sources
- Women — England — Correspondence
- English letters
- Great Britain — History — Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 — Sources
- Great Britain — History — Henry VII, 1485-1509 — Sources
- England — Social life and customs — 1066-1485 — Sources
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Contents
- Introduction. Three generations of women’s letters ; Relationships between the female correspondents and the Paston family ; Calendar
- The letters. The letters and papers of Agnes Berry Paston ; The letters and papers of Elizabeth Paston Poynings or Browne ; The letters and papers of Margaret Mautby Paston ; The letters of Elizabeth Clere ; The letters of Dame Elizabeth Brews ; The letters of Cecily Daune and Constance Reynyforth ; The letters of Margery Brews Paston
- Interpretive essay. "In the absence of a good secretary": The letters, lives, and loves of the Paston women reconsidered
ISBN
- 1843840243
- 9781843840244
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