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- Title
A Time to Read and a Time to Write: Dates, Days, and Saints in the Paston Letters.
- Authors
ROSENTHAL, JOEL T.
- Abstract
The article offers information on Pastons as the most famous family of 15th century England and hundreds of letters preserved which they wrote to each other and to outsiders between the 1440s and the 1480s. The letters offers an opportunity to explore the way in which the dating of letters direct to issues such as lay piety and the routines of daily life. It informs that Margaret Paston, the most prolific of the letter writers, used secular dating in four of her almost one hundred letters.
- Subjects
LETTERS; DATING (Social customs); SOCIAL dating; PASTON, Margaret; EVERYDAY life; MEDIEVAL &; Renaissance (Literary period)
- Publication
Journal of the Early Book Society, 2013, Vol 16, p171
- ISSN
1525-6790
- Publication type
Article