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Blood and Roses: The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: One Family's Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses - Softcover
The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder. Over the course of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. Yet until now, little has been written about the ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary time.
Blood and Roses is a gripping, intimate story of one determined family conducting everyday business against the backdrop of a disintegrating society and savage civil war. Drawing on a rare trove of letters discovered in a tumbledown stately home, historian Helen Castor reconstructs the turbulent affairs of the Pastons through three generations of births, marriages, and deaths as they single-mindedly worked their way up from farmers to landed gentry. It is a remarkable chronicle of devotion, ambition, and survival that brings a remote and hazy era to vibrant new life.
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"A master of every weapon in the modern historian's arsenal... Castor has made the whole century live again ."--New York Times Book Review
"Castor has brought the Paston family to life in an accessible and fluid narrative."--Library Journal
"Dynamic... Persuasive... The tensions and affections binding the family shine across the centuries."--Boston Globe
"Beautifully paced and splendidly retold, Castor's tale... is popular history at its best."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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"Castor has brought the Paston family to life in an accessible and fluid narrative."--Library Journal
"Dynamic... Persuasive... The tensions and affections binding the family shine across the centuries."--Boston Globe
"Beautifully paced and splendidly retold, Castor's tale... is popular history at its best."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Blood and Roses is a gripping biography of the Paston family set against the turbulent background of the Wars of the Roses by Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves and Joan of Arc.
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0007162227
- ISBN 13 9780007162222
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- Number of pages464
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