The Paston Letters (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

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9780192816153: The Paston Letters (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192816152 ISBN 13: 9780192816153

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1983

This collection provides a chance to glimpse the everyday of the mid 1400s in England. A glossary is provided at the end of the book to assist the reader with unfamiliar words but I feel the readability would be improved by redaction of the letters, as well as an explanation of the most commonly used words and phrases.

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From the Back Cover:

"The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in English."--BOOK JACKET. "The letters span three generations and most were written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III, in a period of political turmoil, local anarchy and war abroad and at home. They reveal personal hopes and anxieties, and contain as well as business matters a wealth of information on leisure pursuits, education, and domestic life. The writers express themselves with a clarity and vigour that is remarkable at this early date, and the letters illustrate, as no other documents can, the state of the language in daily use immediately before and after the introduction of printing."--BOOK JACKET. "This modernized selection prepared from the original manuscripts is designed to present the full range of the Pastons' principal concerns."--BOOK JACKET.

About the Author:

The late Professor Norman Davis was formerly Director of the Early English Text Society.

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