Main entry:

Howard, Maurice.

Title & Author:

The building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England / Maurice Howard.

Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, ©2007.

Description:

vii, 227 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index.
'Transformation': an introduction -- 'Bare ruin'd choirs' re-visited -- 'All this "new" building': the urban landscape -- A language for architecture -- The role of patrons -- Representing buildings.

Summary:

"In the 1530s the dissolution of the monasteries in England resulted in great destruction of the built fabric of the country but also the beginning of new initiatives. In the following century, former monasteries were adapted to a variety of uses in both public and private buildings: royal palaces and country houses, town halls and schools, almshouses and refashioned parish churches. England built no new towns but the urban environment changed rapidly to reflect the needs of both national and local government. Patrons spent sometimes wisely, sometimes extravagantly, in managing a balance between their own domestic projects and sponsoring civic buildings that promoted their charitable image in post-Reformation society. This transformation of the country's stock of buildings was accompanied by a new language both of word and vision. Building accounts, government regulation and theoretical writing on the one hand and pictorial representation on the other directed new ways of documenting the changed appearance of the buildings in which people lived, worshipped and worked. This book shows how changes of style in architecture emerged from the practical needs of building a new society through the image-making of public and private patrons in the revolutionary century between Reformation and Civil War."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780300135435 (cl ; alk. paper)
0300135432 (cl ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Elizabethan England.
Architecture, Jacobean.
Architecture and society England History 16th century.
Architecture and society England History 17th century.
Buildings Remodeling for other use England.
Architecture élisabéthaine Angleterre.
Architecture jacobéenne.
Architecture et société Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle.
Architecture et société Angleterre Histoire 17e siècle.
Constructions Reconversion Angleterre.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Elizabethan.
Buildings Remodeling for other use.
England.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256217
Call No.: BIB 186538
Status: Available