01416nam a2200169Ia 4500 20250723104353.0 250723s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9780521555869 941.04 CAR Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483 Cambridge University Press 1996 536 pages The Stonor letters and papers form one of only three surviving archives of gentry correspondence from late medieval England. The collection - which includes documents ranging from love letters to household accounts - provides us with a wealth of otherwise unobtainable detail about the lives and careers of a gentry family, their servants and their friends. Much of the material comes from the period of the Wars of the Roses, and allows us an insider's view on national events and the people involved in them. Originally edited by the historian C. L. Kingsford at the beginning of the century, the complete collection is reissued here, with a new introduction and annotation by Christine Carpenter. In many ways more representative of gentry life than the Paston letters, the Stonor letters and papers will be invaluable to scholars of late medieval England, and will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in the Wars of the Roses or life in medieval England. History ENGLISH 576928 576928