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- catalog abstract "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 initative was taken up by the Crown and by leading courtiers, several of whom owed their property to the King's favour. -- Book jacket.".
- catalog contributor b767686.
- catalog created "c1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "c1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1987.".
- catalog description "'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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "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 initative was taken up by the Crown and by leading courtiers, several of whom owed their property to the King's favour. -- Book jacket.".
- catalog extent "232 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0540011193 :".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "c1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : G. Philip,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "942.05/2 19".
- catalog subject "Architecture and society England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Domestic England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Domestic England.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Tudor.".
- catalog subject "Country homes England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "DA660".
- catalog subject "NA7620 .H69x 1987".
- catalog tableOfContents "'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.".
- catalog title "The early Tudor country house : architecture and politics, 1490-1550 / Maurice Howard.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".