The Intellectual Culture of the English Country House, 1500-1700 - Paperback
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Now available in paperback, The intellectual culture of the English country house is a ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. The essays explore architectural planning; libraries and book collecting; landscape gardening; interior design; the history of science and scientific experimentation; and the collection of portraits and paintings.
The volume demonstrate the significance of the English country house (e.g. Knole House, Castle Howard, Penshurst Place) and its place within larger local cultures that it helped to create and shape. It provides a substantial overview of the country house culture of early modern England and the complicated relationship between the provinces and the national, the country and the city, in a period of rapid social, intellectual and economic transformation.Matthew Dimmock is Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex Margaret Healy is Professor of Literature and Culture at the University of SussexContributor(s)
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