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Life in the English country house:

a social and architectural history
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Yale University Press, 1978 - History - 344 pages
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.
  

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User Review  - Annie Oortman - Goodreads

I borrowed this book to do research for my first Regency romance. As a reader of history, I enjoyed the book very much. The book delves deeply into a wide variety of grand houses in England throughout ... Read full review

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User Review  - Leslie - Goodreads

A widely admired and often cited overview of the history of the English country house, those great houses of the landowning political, cultural, and economic elites, from the Middle Ages to the ... Read full review

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Contents

The Mediaeval Household
13
The Mediaeval House
29
The Elizabethan and Jacobean House
81
16301720
119
Virtuosos and Dilettanti
163
172070
181
17701830
213
Early CountryHouse Technology
245
18301900
267
190040
299
Notes to the Text
319
List of Illustrations
332
Index
338
Copyright

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About the author (1978)

Mark Girouard is a well-known architectural historian whose books include "Life in the English Country House and "Cities and People. He knew James Stirling for many years.

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