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The Letters

The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling
(Oxford World's Classics)
by Norman Davis (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 1999

Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century: Part III
by Richard Beadle (Editor), Colin Richmond (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 2006
"The authoritative edition of Parts 1 and 2 by Professor
Norman Davis was published by the Clarendon Press in 1971 (Pt 1)
and 1976 (Pt 2), and was reissued with corrections by EETS in 2004.
Part 3, edited by Dr Richard Beadle and Professor Colin Richmond,
completes the series planned by Professor Davis before his death.
It contains the remaining texts with indexes to all three parts."
—The Publisher.

Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century: Part II
by Norman Davis (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 2005

The Paston Women: Selected Letters
by Diane Watt (Editor)
D. S. Brewer, 2004
"Diane Watt's introduction seeks to place these letters in
the context of medieval women's writing and and medieval
letter writing. Her interpretive essay reconstructs the
lives of these women by examining what the letters reveal
about women's literacy and education, life in the medieval
household, religion and piety, health and medicine, and love,
marriage, family relationships, and female friendships in
the middle ages." —The Publisher.

The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses
by Richard Barber (Editor)
Boydell Press, 2004
"Richard Barber's attractive selection, originally published
by the Folio Society, well deserves this more accessible reissue.
The letters are presented in modernised form with spare but
informative linking commentary, and the volume is ideal both
for the 'ordinary reader' and for medievalists for whom a
friendly acquaintance with the Pastons is a sufficient substitute
for linguistic or historical scholarship. — Amazon.com.

Critical

The Pastons and their England: Studies in an Age of Transition
by H. S. Bennett
Cambridge University Press, 2003

The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century
by Colin Richmond
Cambridge University Press, 2002
"This volume describes, in lively and original style,
the beginnings of the family's gentility and sets out
some of the major themes of their history between 1400
and 1500." — The Publisher.

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