Defining the Self in Margaret Paston’s Will and Letters
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The Paston letters and documents have scarcely been studied in the context of medieval life-writing. Produced in a period when writing about private life became a commonplace and the attitude toward selfhood underwent profound changes, Margaret Paston’s will and letters challenge prevailing ideas about medieval selfrepresentation by exemplifying how medieval English writers used writing to define their identities. Scholars have maintained that medieval wills and testaments flatten out individual features of the testators as they were composed according to conventional forms. Such documents rarely claim individuality as they often consist of collections of formulae and standardized statements that could be easily duplicated. Margaret’s meticulous, vivid, and authentic records of her life, however, reveal her pride in her lineage and class identity, as her writing both creates and transgresses her images as a matriarch, a submissive and competent wife, and a loyal member of a late medieval English gentry household.
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The Paston letters and documents have scarcely been studied in the context of medieval life-writing. Produced in a period when writing about private life became a commonplace and the attitude toward selfhood underwent profound changes, Margaret Paston’s will and letters challenge prevailing ideas about medieval selfrepresentation by exemplifying how medieval English writers used writing to define their identities. Scholars have maintained that medieval wills and testaments flatten out individual features of the testators as they were composed according to conventional forms. Such documents rarely claim individuality as they often consist of collections of formulae and standardized statements that could be easily duplicated. Margaret’s meticulous, vivid, and authentic records of her life, however, reveal her pride in her lineage and class identity, as her writing both creates and transgresses her images as a matriarch, a submissive and competent wife, and a loyal member of a late medieval English gentry household.
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