The Pastons and Their England by H.S. Bennett is an interesting story about the lives of an ordinary affluent fifteenth century

... The Pastons were very unique because not only were they part of a growing new level in society, due to the fall of feudalism, called the middle class, but also because their letters vividly depict a huge shift in the fifteenth century that saw a new economic situation develop causing the old regime, feudalism, to gradually fall and collapse. The Pastons and Their England by H.S. Bennett is an interesting story about the lives of an ordinary affluent fifteenth century gentry family because it reveals many aspects of their everyday life as well as the changing face of the medieval English countryside. Their letters recreate through correspondence their struggle and triumphs during this time. Bennett's book shows a time of great historical transition by putting the Pastons challenges and individual lives into historical context; in doing so, the book looks at the Pastons' family's experiences during the Wars of

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