RESEARCH IN ENGLISH HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS e Paston Letters, London: Hardpress Publishing, 2013. 2. Articles from journals I. Course Description: The lecture is to guide students on an intensive reading of the original version of The Paston Letters written by the four generations of Paston family during the whole fifteenth century. The family letters cover various contents of the medieval British society, and the instructor will select about twenty of the over one thousand letters to study with the students. II. Objectives: To enable students to learn the general picture of the medieval British society including education, law, business, economy, politics, agriculture, and battles; to help them develop interests and abilities in their future researches both in medieval literature and history fields.