Richard Barber THE PASTONS Folio Society
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Richard Barber THE PASTONS Folio Society
Folio edition, third print slipcased hardback of THE PASTONS: A Family in the Wars of the Roses. Edited by Richard Barber and Published by the Folio Society, London, in 2001. With frontispiece and 9 full-page colour plates from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, woven in Arras or Tournai, and dating from the 1430s. First published by The Folio Society in 1981. This edition is with a new binding.The book is in near fine condition (Bound in buckram. With an illustration from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries on boards and gilt lettering with black label background on spine). In its original green slipcase which is in very good condition with only minor shelf wear. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Richard Barber is one of Britain's leading authorities on medieval history and the author of 'The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe' and 'The Knight and Chivalry'.
The letters of the Paston Family interwoven with the editor's text provide an insight into this period, set in Norfolk and Suffolk. The editor has written a continuous narrative framework setting the letters in context.
"Within three generations (1426 to 1485), and through the dark and dangerous years of the Wars of the Roses, the Pastons established themselves as a family of consequence, both in their native Norfolk and within court circles. Ambitious and highly mobile womenfolk as well as men they kept in touch by correspondence, usually but not invariably through the medium of a clerk.
These letters, a rare survival, break upon us across the centuries with the urgency, and sometimes the violence, of their preoccupations: defending property, fighting court cases, making the right alliances, and, on the domestic side, managing their estates, conducting their courtships, stocking their cupboards. Selected and presented here with Richard Barbers invaluable linking narrative, they bring the middle ages triumphantly to life."
Book size: 9 x 6?. 208 pages Map on endpapers and Genealogical Tables.
ISBN: n/a
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