Blood and Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses

Helen Castor

ISBN 10: 0571216714 / ISBN 13: 9780571216710

Published by Faber & Faber (edition 1st), 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood and Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses
• Publisher: Faber & Faber (edition 1st)
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571216714
• ISBN 13: 9780571216710
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The War of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. Yet almost nothing is known about the thoughts and feelings of the people who lived through this bloody conflict. Almost nothing, but not quite. As they made their way in a disintegrating world, a Norfolk family called the Pastons were writing letters - about politics, about business, about shopping, about love and about each other. Using these letters, the oldest surviving family correspondence in English, Helen Castor traces the extraordinary history of the Paston family across three generations. Blood & Roses tells the dramatic, moving and intensely human story of how one family survived one of the most tempestuous periods in English history.

About the Author

Helen Castor is a medieval historian and a Bye-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her book, Blood & Roses, a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second, She-Wolves, was made into a major BBC TV series. Joan of Arc: A History is her latest published book. She lives in London with her husband and son.