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

Main entry:

Girouard, Mark, 1931-2022, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

v, 344 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

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.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

9780300022735
0300022735
9780300058703 (pbk.)
0300058705 (pbk.)

Subject:

Upper class Great Britain History.
Country homes Great Britain History.
Country life Great Britain History.
Architecture and society Great Britain History.
Architecture, Domestic Great Britain.
Manors Great Britain History.
Classes supérieures Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Maisons de campagne Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architecture et société Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architecture and society
Architecture, Domestic
Country homes
Country life
Manners and customs
Manors
Upper class
Geschichte
Oberschicht
Villa
Landhuizen.
Landadel.
Bouwkunst.
Boliger.
England.
Herskapshus.
Arkitektur.
Country homes Great Britain.
Architecture and society Great Britain.
Upper classes Great Britain History.
England Social life and customs.
Angleterre Mœurs et coutumes.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Country houses Social life England, to 1940

Form/genre:

Lecture
lectures.
Reviews.
Lectures
History
Conférences.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92496
Call No.: HT653.G7 (2652)
Status: Available

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