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Telling tales : sources and narration in late medieval England
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Telling tales : sources and narration in late medieval England

Author: Joel Thomas Rosenthal
Publisher: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Margaret Paston; Paston family.; Scrope family.
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joel Thomas Rosenthal
ISBN: 027102304X 9780271023045
OCLC Number: 52214633
Description: xxv, 217 p. : geneal. tables ; 25 cm.
Contents: Telling tales in a social context -- 1. Proofs of age: a rich fabric of thin threads -- The world of jurors and testimony -- The mechanics of recollection -- Jurors' life cycles and life-cycle memories -- Ecclesiastical memories -- Memories of the secular world -- Communities large and small -- The construction of memory in the proofs -- 2. Sir Richard Scrope and the Scrope and Grosvenor depositions -- Recollection re-creates fellowship -- Cognition and recollection -- Tales of the Scropes: battles and banners -- 3. Margaret Paston: the lady and the letters -- Letters as artifacts -- Constructing the letters: how to tell it like it is -- First stuck at home and then mostly alone -- Some final reflections.
Responsibility: Joel T. Rosenthal.
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