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A Wealth of Buildings: Marking the Rhythm of English HistoryMagnate Display

A Wealth of Buildings: Marking the Rhythm of English History: Magnate Display [There arose in the fifteenth century a new form of aristocratic dwelling, the courtyard house. This was the form adopted by Henry VIII for his vast portfolio of palaces. Magnate building reached a climax in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, with the prodigy houses built by the new aristocracy of courtiers who had displaced the old feudal aristocracy. These were men who had grown rich on the fruits of office and the estates they acquired from the dissolution of the monasteries. As the great house developed, it displayed increasing Renaissance influences and more open plan layouts. Following the hiatus caused by the Civil War and Commonwealth government, aristocratic building resumed with a preference for more compact houses of fully classical design.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Wealth of Buildings: Marking the Rhythm of English HistoryMagnate Display

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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978-0-230-36035-8
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215 –301
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10.1057/978-1-137-31921-0_5
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[There arose in the fifteenth century a new form of aristocratic dwelling, the courtyard house. This was the form adopted by Henry VIII for his vast portfolio of palaces. Magnate building reached a climax in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, with the prodigy houses built by the new aristocracy of courtiers who had displaced the old feudal aristocracy. These were men who had grown rich on the fruits of office and the estates they acquired from the dissolution of the monasteries. As the great house developed, it displayed increasing Renaissance influences and more open plan layouts. Following the hiatus caused by the Civil War and Commonwealth government, aristocratic building resumed with a preference for more compact houses of fully classical design.]

Published: Sep 23, 2016

Keywords: Seventeenth Century; Sixteenth Century; Great House; Fifteenth Century; Regular Income

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