Title & Author:

Patronage, culture, and power : the early Cecils / edited by Pauline Croft.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Yale Center for British Art [by] Yale University Press, ©2002.

Description:

xxi, 308 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Series:

Studies in British art ; 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Pomp or Glory': The Influence of Theobalds / Malcolm Airs -- The Politics of Pleasure: William Cecil and Burghley House / Jill Husselby -- The Cecils at Wimbledon / Caroline Knight -- Hatfield: A House for a Lord Treasurer / Claire Gapper, John Newman and Annabel Ricketts -- A Shared Passion: The Cecils and their Gardens / Paula Henderson -- Robert Cecil as Art Collector / Susan Bracken -- 'Musique which pleaseth myne eare': Robert Cecil's Musical Patronage / Lynn Hulse -- The Retiring Patron: William Cecil and the Cultivation of Retirement, 1590-1598 / James M. Sutton -- 'To raise a house of better frame': Jonson's Cecilian Entertainments / James Knowles -- The Economic Patronage of William Cecil / Felicity Heal and Clive Holmes -- The Cecils and Westminster 1558-1612: The Development of an Urban Power Base / J.F. Merritt -- Lord Burghley and his Household Biographers: John Clapham and Sir Michael Hickes / A.G.R. Smith -- The Cecil Women at Court / Helen Payne -- Mildred, Lady Burghley: The Matriarch / Pauline Croft.

Summary:

This is a study of the Cecils, the dominant noble family in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. These essays draw on art and architectural history, court studies, English literature, garden history, musicology, economic history and women's studies.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0300091362 (alk. paper)
9780300091366 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Cecil family.
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598 Art patronage.
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612 Art patronage.
Cecil (Famille)
Cecil (famille) Mécénat.
Burghley House (Stamford, England)
Hatfield House (Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Angleterre)
Art patronage Great Britain History 16th century.
Art patronage Great Britain History 17th century.
Power (Social sciences) Great Britain History.
Nobility Great Britain Biography.
Mécénat Grande-Bretagne Histoire 16e siècle.
Mécénat Grande-Bretagne Histoire 17e siècle.
Art patronage
Civilization
Courts and courtiers
Nobility
Power (Social sciences)
Kunstbevordering.
Politieke manipulatie.
Architecture Angleterre (GB) 17e siècle.
Collectionneurs et collections Angleterre (GB) 17e siècle.
Hatfield House (England)
Great Britain Court and courtiers History 16th century.
Great Britain Court and courtiers History 17th century.
Great Britain Civilization 16th century.
Great Britain Civilization 17th century.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 16e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 17e siècle.
England Hatfield House
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Biographies
History

Added entries:

Croft, J. Pauline.
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Yale Center for British Art.
Studies in British art ; 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220983
Call No.: NA966 .P3 2002
Status: Available