Town houses of medieval Britain
by Quiney, Anthony (1935-)
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: ix, 333 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-319) and index.Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Contents: Preface -- Introduction : in the beginning was the Word -- -- Part 1. And the word was made flesh -- 1. Venerable marks of antiquity : the Anglo-Saxon inheritance -- 2. New masters in ancient places : Norman and Angevin England -- 3. Beyond the borders of an easy life : Wales and Scotland -- 4. Money makythe the man : the commerce of towns -- 5. What is the city but the people? : the society of towns -- 6. From plague, pestilence, and famine : the late Middle Ages -- 7. For the common utility of the City : the regulation of towns -- 8. Squared stones, evenly jointed : walls, floors and roofs -- 9. Like season'd timber, never gives : framed walls and roofs -- -- Part 2. A house appointed for all living -- 10. The shadow of a fleeting dream : impermanent houses -- 11. Vaultes stronglye and substanciallye wrought : undercrofts -- 12. Cloud-capp'd towers, and gorgeous palaces : the palaces and halls of magnates -- 13. Houses small and not lofty : merchants' and Jews' houses -- 14. A house for royal business and other affairs : the houses of royalty, magnates and wealthy merchants -- 15. For dignity compos'd : guildhalls, hospitals, almshouses and colleges -- 16. Houses most of timber work : small town houses in the later Middle Ages -- 17. One frame called the 'Lady Rowe' : terrace houses -- 18. Housses mirk and steepy : Scotland from the late Middle Ages to the union of the crowns -- -- Conclusion : restoring intellectual day -- Abbreviations -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Great Britain; Architecture, Medieval Great Britain; Cities and towns Great Britain; Cities and towns Great Britain; Architecture, Domestic Wales; Architecture, Medieval Wales; Row houses.
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- Title
- Town houses of medieval Britain
- Author
- Quiney, Anthony (1935-)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
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- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300093853
- ISBN 13
- 9780300093858
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2003
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