Blood and Roses
About this book
The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. As they made their way in a disintegrating world, the Paston family in Norfolk family were writing letters - about politics, about business, about shopping, about love and about each other, including the first valentine.
Using these letters - the oldest surviving family correspondence in English - Helen Castor traces the extraordinary history of the Paston family across three generations.
Blood & Roses tells the dramatic, moving and intensely human story of how one family survived one of the most tempestuous periods in English history.
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and winner of the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- The Paston Family
- The Rulers of England
- Map of the Pastonsβ East Anglia
- Authorβs Note & Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- PROLOGUE : β the most curious papers of the sort I ever saw β
- CHAPTER ONE : β a worshipful man grown by fortune of the world β
- CHAPTER TWO : β no will of them in writing β
- CHAPTER THREE : β a perilous dwelling β
- CHAPTER FOUR : β the world is changed greatly β
- CHAPTER FIVE : β a squire of worship β
- CHAPTER SIX : β the heartiest kinsman and friend β
- CHAPTER SEVEN : β neither in trust nor favour β
- CHAPTER EIGHT : β the infinite process β
- CHAPTER NINE : β a drone among bees β
- CHAPTER TEN : β till better peace be β
- CHAPTER ELEVEN : β the matter of Caister β
- CHAPTER TWELVE : β I pray get us a wife somewhere β
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN : β our trusty and wellbeloved knight β
- EPILOGUE : β letters of good consequence in history β
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
