Main entry:

Howard, Maurice.

Title & Author:

The early Tudor country house : architecture and politics, 1490-1550 / Maurice Howard.

Publication:

London : G. Philip, ©1987.

Description:

232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Ill. on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references.
'Simple and plain to sight': building in early Tudor England -- Power and the courtier house -- 'Tournid to pleasure': architecture and the sense of the past -- The courtyard and the household -- 'A fayre new parlor': the evidence of inventories -- 'The anticke all gilt': England the the Renaissance -- The conversion of the monasteries -- 'Withe timbar, brike and flynte': building materials and their regional pattern -- 'A farther and more ample discourse': the Somerset group and a change of direction -- Gazetteer.

Summary:

Typified by a house such as Compton Wynyates, low-lying brick-built and attractively unsymmetrical, the early Tudor country house has often been described as displaying an indefinable quality of Englishness. But the builder of Compton Wynyates would be surprised to see his house today, without the moat and the rambling and fragile outbuildings of timber that originally surrounded it. The popular view of the early Tudor country house is shaped by the accidents of survival and therefore by a false idea of what these buildings were really like. Howard's wide-ranging account shows these hosues as they were built, how they were lived in and what they demonstrate about the society of the time. Primarily products of the great and wealthy, they are an interesting key to the workings of the power structure and the influence of the Court. At the start of the period, the higher ranks of the clergy were setting the pace for new building projects, as epitomized by the activities of Thomas Wolsey. This initiative was taken up by the Crown and by leading courtiers, several of whom owed their property to the King's favour. -- Book jacket.

ISBN:

0540011193
9780540011193

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic England.
Country homes England History 16th century.
Architecture, Tudor.
Architecture and society England History 16th century.
Country homes England History.
Architecture, Tudor England.
Architecture and state England History.
Maisons de campagne Angleterre Histoire.
Architecture Tudor Angleterre.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Angleterre Histoire.
Maisons de campagne Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle.
Architecture Tudor.
Architecture et société Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle.
Architecture and state
Architecture and society
Architecture, Domestic
Country homes
Herrenhaus
Bildband
Villa
Architecture domestique Grande-Bretagne 16e siècle.
Art tudor.
Architecture Aspect social Grande-Bretagne 16e siècle.
England
England Country houses, 1485-1603

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 9197
Call No.: ID:87-B13474
Status: Available