Title Life in the English country house : a social and architectural history / Mark Girouard

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 1978 New Haven : Yale University Press, [1978] ©1978

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Description v, 344 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm regular print Series Slade lectures ; 1975-1976 Contents The power houses -- The mediaeval household -- The mediaeval house -- The Elizabethan and Jacobean house -- The formal house: 1630-1720 -- First interlude: virtuosos and dilettanti -- The social house: 1720-70 -- The arrival of informality: 1770-1930 -- Second interlude: early country-house technology -- The moral house: 1830-1900 -- The Indian summer: 1900-40 Summary From literature, social chronicles, and family documents comes a study of the evolution and social role of the English country house since the Middle Ages Analysis Country houses Architecture History England Wales Country houses Architecture History England Wales Country houses Architecture History England England Country houses Social conditions to 1940 Wales Notes Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Architecture and society -- Great Britain -- History. Architecture, Domestic -- Great Britain. Country homes -- Great Britain -- History. Country life -- Great Britain -- History. Manors -- Great Britain -- History. Upper class -- Great Britain -- History. SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043318 Great Britain -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056946 LC no. 78009088 ISBN 0300022735 0300058705 9780300022735 9780300058703

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