Arcadia: England and the Dream of Perfection - Softcover

Arcadia: The Dream of Perfection in Renaissance England.

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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: Gut. X, 284 p.: Ill. Lediglich der Einband ist leicht berieben und die Seiten papierbedingt angegilbt, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / Only the binding is slightly rubbed and the pages yellowed due to the paper, otherwise a good and clean copy without annotations. - Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in an earlier Britain a way of living, an Arcadia, which now seems both ideal and remote? In 16th- and 17th-century England the changes of an approaching modernity accelerated - the new mercantile, individualist world increasingly clashed with the communal and chivalric ideals of the old. To tell this story from the 1520s to the 1640s, Adam Nicolson takes a single great family, the Earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants and allies, and follows their high and glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, nostalgia, ambition, resistance and war. A rich, fascinating depiction of a family - and a country - on the hinge of the medieval and the modern, Adam Nicolson explores a world in transition during the period when the world which we have lost turned into the world it has now become. / Contents ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1 The Dream of Perfection Arcadia in Renaissance England 1520-1650 2 A lovely campania The Wiltshire Downs as a theatre for pastoral 3 And is not euery manor a little common wealth? The inherited community of the Middle Ages 4 A countrey of lands and Mannours The Pembrokes impose their vision on Wilton 1542-1570 5 Customarie Services and Composition Piggs The workings of downland society 6 I ll be a park and thou shalt be my deer The making of the Pembroke Arcadia 1570-1586 7 Little Earths kind of Paradise Mary Pembroke s court at Wilton 1586-1601 8 So mutable are worldly things Ancient communities and the threat of modernity 9 Two Incomparable Brethren The careers of William, Earl of Pembroke and Philip, Earl of Montgomery 1601-1630 10 Elizian Fields and Ayery Paradises The perfecting of Wilton 1630-1640 11 The most I can look for is to scape undoing The break-up of Arcadian England 1640-1650 12 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy The destruction of the downland communities 1650-1830. ISBN 9780007240531 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 238. Artikel-Nr. 1213734

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