A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England

The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies

The Pastons were members of the English gentry, a group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the peasants and a rough analog for the contemporary “middle class.” Their existence was fairly typical, except for the fact that it was recorded in an extraordinary collection of nearly 1,000 letters that have survived to this ...