The Paston Women: Selected Letters

By: Watt, Diane

The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing.

The Paston letters form one of only two surviving collections of fifteenth-century correspondence, in their case especially rich in letters from the women of the family. Clandestine love affairs, secret marriages, violent family rows, bickering with neighbours, battles and sieges, threats of murder and kidnapping, fears of plague: these are just...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843840243
• ISBN13: 9781843840244
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.5"