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100 1 $aCastor, Helen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00024507
240 10 $aBlood & roses$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005082346
245 10 $aBlood and roses :$bone family's struggle and triumph during England's tumultuous civil war /$cHelen Castor.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c2006.
300 $axx, 426 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (chiefly color), map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: Blood & roses : the Paston Family in the fifteenth century. London : Faber and Faber, 2004.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [4[03]-406) and index.
520 1 $a"In a span of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder, yet until now, almost nothing has been known about the ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary time." "Drawing on a rare trove of letters discovered in a tumbledown stately home, historian Helen Castor reconstructs the lives of the Paston family, who singlemindedly worked their way up from farmers to landed gentry. As they went about their business in a disintegrating society, the Pastons corresponded on topics ranging from politics to love, from shopping to family gossip. A wife writes her husband that she'd rather have him home than have a new gown, "even if it were scarlet." A brother reports that the handless servant, Thomas Stumps, has demanded a crossbow so that he can defend them in a siege. Five hundred years later, these voices still have the immediacy of a conversation overheard on a street corner." "Blood and Roses is an intimate biography of a family, which traces three generations of births, marriages, and deaths. Castor unravels the story of the family's turbulent affairs against the backdrop of civil war, bringing to vibrant life a remote and hazy era."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yLancaster and York, 1399-1485.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056765
650 0 $aNobility$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108424
600 30 $aPaston family.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098559
852 00 $bbar$hDA245$i.C3687 2006