Country Houses

1901 ◽  
Vol 31 (262) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
R. A. Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Country Houses

scholarly journals Comfort in English and Swedish country houses, c.1760–1820

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Stobart ◽  
Cristina Prytz
Keyword(s):  
Country Houses

VIII.—Elizabethan Sheldon Tapestries

Archaeologia ◽  
1925 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 181-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Country Houses ◽  
Similar Character ◽  
Fine Collection

For many centuries, though a good many tapestries were woven in France, Flanders was the chief centre of the industry, and supplied the various European countries with tapestries and hangings of a similar character. Cloths of Arras were in demand for English country houses, and large purchases were made from time to time by the richer nobles. It was, however, at the beginning of the sixteenth century that tapestries came increasingly into demand and favour in England, as is evident by the fine collection made by Cardinal Wolsey for Hampton Court, and that of King Henry VIII for his own palaces. The inventory taken after his death records over 2,000 specimens, while a writer states that ‘one ship from the Continent carried no less than one thousand tapestries for the King of England’. Agents were employed in Flanders to secure the finest specimens as they were woven.

Course on Country Houses

1955 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
William H. Pierson
Keyword(s):  
Country Houses

The Manual of 1614

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-172
Author(s):  
J. D. Crichton
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Teresa Of Avila ◽  
Country Houses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ordinary Person ◽  
The Many

In recent years, students of recusancy have begun to turn their attention to the inner life of the Catholic community, a development much to be welcomed; and it is understandable that for the most part the centre of interest has been what is called the spiritual life. Influences coming from St. Francis of Sales and St. Teresa of Avila have been traced, and Augustine Baker has rightly been the subject of much study. What needs further investigation, I believe, is the devotional life of the ordinary person, namely the gentry and their wives and daughters in their country houses, especially in the seventeenth century. There were also those who towards the end of the century increasingly lived in London and other towns without the support of the ‘patriarchal’ life of the greater families. No doubt, many were unlettered, and even if they could read they were probably unused to handling anything but the simplest of books. It would be interesting to know what vernacular prayers they knew and said, how they managed to ‘hear Mass’, as the phrase went, what they made of the sacrament of penance, and what notions about God and Jesus Christ they entertained. Perhaps the religious practice of the unlettered is now beyond recall, but something remains of the practice of those who used the many Primers and Manuals that are still extant.

scholarly journals Recovery of urban development stages of town Rashkiv

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-137
Author(s):  
Illia Lytvynchuk ◽  
Mykola Bevz ◽  
Bogusław Szmygin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Defense Strategies ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Country Houses

In this article, the authors considered the development of Rashkiv (Raszków in Polish and Raşcov in Rumunian), the fortified settlement which is situated on the Middle part of the Lower Dnister Region. An attempt of reconstruction of the most important stages of its town-planning biography of the 15th-18th centuries was made. The authors based their research on newly identified sources. The systematization of the historical chronology of the most important events which have influenced the formation of the defensive structures and the urban environment of Rashkiv has been carried out. In the course of the 15th-18th centuries, four major urban planning periods were identified: the Lithuanian – fort Karaul in the form of a defensive roundel type castle, further – Zamoyski’s town fortress with a fortified downtown, then – the fortifying of the suburbs and, finally, – trade and handicraft town without any defense function. At each stage, an attempt was made to hypothetically localize separate elements of the city – fortifications, historical roads, street planning system, civil and sacral dominant elements. The authors all available source data – archival sources, historical and contemporary cartography, toponymics, field surveys, surveys, and iconographic materials for analysis. Remains of the 1st period represent today ruins of earth shafts under the fortress. This hillfort is monument of archeological heritage and it is protected by state. Ukrainian historian M. Hrushevskyi connects appearance of the fort here with necessity todefend the river crossing and the trading way. From the 2nd period we have today just two preserved bastions of the early of 17th century and some relicts of urban planning system, for example, part of the historical market square. The article also substantiates the value and necessity of preserving the historical plan of Rashkiv which was, in particular, developed under the influence of the development of defense strategies of its time. 3rd period was graphically hypothetically reconstructed in many ways. To a greater extent it is because we have not enough materials to create a definite model of the urban development of this period. Research is based on historical topographic works of 17th and 18th centuries and onlysince the early 19th century we have more detailed historical plans to make more far reaching hypotheses. Using historical photos of early 20th century, authors succeeded in discovering historically determined rhythm of urban environment in Rashkiv. Unfortunately, it is disappearing now due the physical ruining of historical substance of old town and reconstruction according present-day inhabitants’ ideas about country houses or summer cottages. The present results are significant in elaborating historical and reference architectural plan of the settlement, registration of the newly discovered objects of cultural heritage as monuments of architecture and urban planning, archeology, history and nature. New master plan of Rashkiv urban development should be based on our complex architectural and urban planning research to preserve cultural legacy of Rashkiv and to use it for modern economical and tourist revival.

scholarly journals On the Leicester earthquake of August 4, 1893

1895 ◽  
Vol 57 (340-346) ◽  
pp. 87-95
Keyword(s):  
Disturbed Area ◽  
Country Houses

On August 4, 1893, at 6.41 p. m. (G. M. T.), an earthquake shock was felt throughout the whole of Leicestershire and Rutland, and in parts also of the adjoining counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby, Stafford, Warwick and Northampton. The disturbed area, therefore, lies entirely within the land. It is also one over which villages and country houses are for the most part closely scattered, and it has thus been possible to obtain a large number of careful and detailed accounts. I have received altogether 391 records from 298 places where the earthquake was observed, and 103 others from 97 places where, so far as known, no trace of it was perceived.

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