A medieval family : the Pastons of fifteenth-century England / Frances and Joseph Gies.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 392 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:- 0060172649
- Paston letters
- Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
- England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- Norfolk
- Middle class -- England -- History -- Sources
- Family -- England -- History -- Sources
- Fastolf, John, Sir, 1378-1459
- Paston family -- Correspondence
- DA240 .G54 1998
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The letters -- The family -- Judge William and his children (1421-1444) -- Land disputes and the Siege of Gresham (1444-1450) -- Sir John Fastolf, a soldier in retirement (1450-1452) -- Sir John Fastolf and John Paston (1453-1459) -- The Fastolf will contested (1459-1465) -- The Sack of Hellesdon and the death of John Paston (1465-1466) -- Royal marriages and misalliances (1466-1469) -- The Siege of Caister (1469) -- The Battle of Barnet (1470-1471) -- Family discord, foreign war, and other disturbances (1471-1475) -- Caister regained, a marriage negotiated (1475-1478) -- Deaths (1479-1484) -- The last of the medieval Pastons.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-367) and index.
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