Author: George Paston
Publisher: Brunauer Press
Keywords: books, coloured, old
Number of Pages: 78
Published: 2010-04-04
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1445574705
ISBN-13: 9781445574707

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Colin Richmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: first, phase, vol, volume, century, family, fifteenth, paston
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2002-05-16
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0521520274
ISBN-13: 9780521520270

The Pastons of Paston, Norfolk, are famous for the collection of letters and papers which bear their name. In particular ’the Paston Letters’ have been well known since the time of Horace Walpole, although until now they have never been used systematically by historians of fifteenth-century England: they are both immensely attractive to read and fiendishly difficult to use as source material from which to write history. This volume describes, in lively and original style, the beginnings of the family’s gentility and sets out some of the major themes of their history between 1

Author: Alexander Bergs
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Keywords: letters, paston, topics, english, linguistics, variation, morphosyntactic, networks, historical, sociolinguistics, studies, social
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 3110183102
ISBN-13: 9783110183108

The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. In the three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English pronouns by borrowed pronouns, the introduction and spread of the relativizers, and the spread and routinization of light verb constructions (take, make, give, have, do plus deverbal noun). While the study aims at a balanced integration of theories and metho