Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural HistoryFrom literature, social chronicles, and family documents comes a study of the evolution and social role of the English country house since the Middle Ages. |
Contents
The Mediaeval Household | 13 |
The Mediaeval House | 29 |
The Elizabethan and Jacobean House | 81 |
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History Mark Girouard Limited preview - 1978 |
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History Mark Girouard No preview available - 2017 |
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apartments architect Architecture arrangement backstairs banqueting Bath became bedchamber bedroom Bess of Hardwick billiard Buckinghamshire building built Castle Celia Fiennes ceremony chapel Chatsworth cistern closet country houses court courtyard dancing Derbyshire designed dining room dinner drawing room dressing room Duchess Duke Earl earl's Edward Piper eighteenth century Elizabethan England entertainment feast formal house fourteenth century front gallery garden gentlemen gentlewomen gentry Girouard ground floor guests Hagley Hall hall Ham House Hardwick Hardwick Hall Harleian Humphry Repton king kitchen ladies landowners lodgings London Lord lord's Lucinda Lambton Manor meals Middle Ages nineteenth century Norfolk House Northumberland owner Oxfordshire Palace pantry Park parlour portico privy queen Robert Smythson Roger North Roger Pratt round royal saloon servants seventeenth century sixteenth century sometimes staircase steward survive symmetry tended Thomas tower upper classes Victorian visitors water-closets Wiltshire wing withdrawing chamber yeomen