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Record Number:
12498
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Rosenthal , Joel T.
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Title:
Looking for Grandmother: The Pastons and Their Counterparts in Late Medieval England
Source:
Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler. Garland Publishing, 1996. Pages 259 - 277.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Family
Grandchildren
Grandmothers
Old Age
Paston, Agnes, Gentry Woman
Paston Family
Paston, Margaret, Gentry Woman
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
15
Related Resources:
Joel Rosenthal's essay similarly examines the more elusive role of the grandmother, as revealed in the letters of the Paston family. The letters and wills of the Pastons provide only tantalizing hints about the quality of the relationships among the write
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Illustrations:
The "Paston Letters" record the activities of Agnes and Margaret Paston, two active fifteenth-century English grandmothers. Other sources supplement the picture with tales of anomie and isolation, the old women's household as the center of socialization for young girls, and grandmothers as lynchpins between the family's past identity and current enterprises. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing.]
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Year of Publication:
1996.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0815323417
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