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Item Number: 119854
Title: 'The Mirror of Great Britain', National Identity in Seventeenth-Century British Architecture
Author: Turner, Olivia Horsfall (ed)
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ISBN: 9781904965381
Description: Reading: Spire Books, 2012. 25cm., hardcover, 288pp. illus. Summary: In studies of seventeenth-century British architecture, the term Britain has more often than not been used as a synonym for England. The geographical and political reality was far more complex. Following the accession of James I, there was a personal union of the Crowns of Scotland and England. Wales existed as a principality and IrelandŐs status was under negotiation throughout the century. Further afield, colonies in the New World had their own relationship to Great Britain. In this book, based on a Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain symposium, emerging and established scholars examine the multi-faceted national identity of British architecture in the seventeenth century. Ten essays studying buildings across the British archipelago and the Atlantic world examine how different architectural forms and features were employed to articulate political and social realities and aspirations. From royal palaces through fortifications to vernacular dwellings, the dynamics between the different parts of Britain were expressed through, and shaped by, architecture. Contents: Sir James Murray of Kilbaberton: King's Master of 15 Works, 1607-1634, Aonghus MacKechnie ; First lines of defence: the fortification of Bermuda in the seventeenth century, Emily Mann ; The early seventeenth-century Ulster and Midland plantations, Part I: pre-plantation architecture and building regulations, Rolf Loeber ; The early seventeenth-century Ulster and Midland plantations, Part II: the new architecture, Rolf Loeber ; Archaism and modernity: identity and country-house design in seventeenth-century Wales, Mark Baker ; The Conway Estate in County Antrim: an example of seventeenth-century 'English' building styles in Ireland, Brenda Collins ; Pavilion or pediment: the development of Scottish 187 country-house architecture in the post-Restoration period, Charles Wemyss ; The English in the Levant: social networks and the study of architecture, Lydia M. Soo ; Historiography and the origins of the gentleman's house in the British Atlantic world, Stephen Hague ; Telling Stories: myths and memories of the 'blackhouse' in the Scottish national narrative, Daniel Maudlin.
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