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Item Number: 134419
Title: The intellectual culture of the English country house, 1500-1700
Author: Matthew, Dimmock (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780719090202
Description: Mancheser: Manchester University Press, 2015. 24cm., hardcover, 240pp. illus. Contents: 1. ‘The Lordship of the Eye’: Country Houses as the Setting for Intellectual Enquiry - Maurice Howard. Part I: Cultural Reconstructions of the English Country House. 2. William Warham’s Otford Palace: An Archbishop’s Motivations for Building (c.1514-26) - Alden Gregory. 3. Rediscovering a lost Tudor mansion through archives and manuscripts: The Rycote Project at the Bodleian Library - Matthew Neely. 4. ‘To Knole, and then ‘To Penshurst’: The Network of Patronage between two Country Houses in the Early Seventeenth Century - Edward Town. 5. Decorating the Godly Gallery: Piety and Politics in Plasterwork at Lanhydrock House, Cornwall - Tara Hamling. 6. Sir Thomas Smith’s stillhouse at Hill Hall: printed books, antiquity and innovative practice - Richard Simpson. 7. A most studious searcher after truth: the 9th Earl of Northumberland and Scientia - Alison McCann. 8. Anne Finch and the Fallen Country House - Nicolle Jordan. 9. Elite Pageantry as Popular News: Elvetham House, John Wolfe, and Country-House Entertainment in Print - Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich. 10. Country Houses and the Beginnings of Bibliomania - James Raven. 11. Looking back from 1700: problems in locating the country house library - Susie West. 12. My Laydes Bookes att Noward...: Putting Readers back into the English Country House - Hannah DeGroff. 13. Wilton House and Seventeenth-Century Country House Literature - Anne Myers. 14. Performing Arcadia: Wilton House, Theatre, and Power - Marta Straznicky. 15. Wilton House and the Art of Floating Meadows - Louise Noble.
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