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- catalog abstract ""The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them, in the earliest great collection of family letters in English, an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England -- it's private ambitions, anxieties, hopes, and loves in the midst of political turmoil, local anarchy, and war abroad and at home. The letters, with their wealth of competent, practical writing, illustrate as no other documents can the capacity of the English language at a critical period of its history. Though the letters have long been widely known, they have not been newly edited for over fifty years. Professor Davis has chosen 95 of the most interesting letters, by 26 different writers, and has edited them afresh from the manuscripts, with an introduction, selected criticism, explanatory notes, and a glossary"--Dust jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Paston letters.".
- catalog contributor b2147525.
- catalog contributor b2147526.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Social life and customs 1066-1485 Sources.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Social life and customs 16th century Sources.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "1958.".
- catalog date "1958".
- catalog date "1958.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1958.".
- catalog description ""The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them, in the earliest great collection of family letters in English, an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England -- it's private ambitions, anxieties, hopes, and loves in the midst of political turmoil, local anarchy, and war abroad and at home. The letters, with their wealth of competent, practical writing, illustrate as no other documents can the capacity of the English language at a critical period of its history. Though the letters have long been widely known, they have not been newly edited for over fifty years. Professor Davis has chosen 95 of the most interesting letters, by 26 different writers, and has edited them afresh from the manuscripts, with an introduction, selected criticism, explanatory notes, and a glossary"--Dust jacket.".
- catalog extent "xxix, 165 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Paston letters.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Paston letters.".
- catalog isPartOf "Clarendon medieval and Tudor series".
- catalog issued "1958".
- catalog issued "1958.".
- catalog language "eng enm".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford, Clarendon Press,".
- catalog relation "Paston letters.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Social life and customs 1066-1485 Sources.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Social life and customs 16th century Sources.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "942.04".
- catalog subject "DA240 .P32".
- catalog subject "English letters.".
- catalog subject "Letter writing History To 1500 Sources.".
- catalog subject "Paston family Correspondence.".
- catalog title "Paston letters, selected and edited with an introd., notes and glossary by Norman Davis. Critical comment by Horace Walpole, Virginia Woolf, and others.".
- catalog type "text".