{"product_id":"the-pastons-a-family-in-the-wars-of-the-roses-9781843831112","title":"The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses","description":"Attractive selection conveys well their recurrent concerns with land, money, civil violence, flirtation, marriage, and the purchase of ginger and lace. MEDIUM AEVUM\u003cbr\u003e Vivid first-hand accounts of life in England at the time ofthe Wars of the Roses, presented in their historical context. Essential reading on the English middle ages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin three generations (1426 to 1485), and through the dark anddangerous years of the Wars of the Roses, the Pastons establishedthemselves as a family of consequence, both in their native Norfolk andwithin court circles. Ambitious and highly mobile - womenfolk as wellas men - they kept in touch by correspondence, usually but notinvariably through the medium of a clerk. These letters, a raresurvival, break upon us across the centuries with the urgency, andsometimes the violence, of their preoccupations: defending property, fighting court cases, making the right alliances, and, on the domesticside, managing their estates, conducting their courtships, stockingtheir cupboards. Selected and presented here with Richard Barber'sinvaluable linking narrative, they bring the middle ages triumphantlyto life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarber, Richard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Richard Barber has published widely on medieval history. The Knight and Chivalry won the 1971 Somerset Maugham Award. His other major interest is historical biography with books on Henry Plantagenet and the Black Prince.","brand":"Boydell Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557177364754,"sku":"9781843831112","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_682f75d6-c067-422d-ad5e-a679e1694083.jpg?v=1731773915","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pastons-a-family-in-the-wars-of-the-roses-9781843831112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}