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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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- Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Historiography.
- Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Sources.
- Heraldry -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources.
- Families -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources.
- Jury -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources.
- Paston, Margaret, -- 1423-1484 -- Correspondence.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.
- Great Britain -- Genealogy -- Sources.
- Paston family.
- Scrope family.
