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Life in the English country house : a social and architectural history

Mark Girouard (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 1978
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1978
Lecture
v, 344 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
9780300022735, 9780300058703, 0300022735, 0300058705
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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
Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76