A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England
by:
Frances Gies (author)
Joseph Gies (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060930554 (0060930551)
Publish date: August 4th 1999
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
I've come to prefer social history to "big events". This is an account of the fortunes of a newly-prosperous family, who had made their fortunes as lawyers, drawn from an unusually complete collection of their correspondence. The correspondence deals with many matters of money and litigation. They w...