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Helen
Castor.
Blood
& Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses.
Faber,
2005 (previously issued in hardback, 2004).
ISBN
0571216714.
Paperback.
368pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £8.99
The Wars of the Roses
turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings 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. The letters of the Pastons, an ambitious nouveau
riche Norfolk family striving to establish themselves among the landed
gentry, offer us a unique and fascinating insight into the tumult of
that age. Helen Castor explores the Pastons' experiences of birth,
marriage, love, death, and the realities of daily life, and unravels
the turbulent politics of the family's affairs against the backdrop of
civil war between York and Lancaster.
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