The Intellectual World of the Country House in Ireland and Britain
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The Intellectual World of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

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  2. English
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The Intellectual World of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

About this book

Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In varying degrees their occupants thought, conversed, read, and responded to their milieu through books, newspapers, and other media. Their libraries and archives provide an invaluable record of how people in country houses fashioned themselves and their views of the world. The essays in this volume examine reading habits, book collections and practical applications of thinking to demonstrate how elite society exchanged ideas, absorbed new trends, and engaged in wider debate.

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Yes, you can access The Intellectual World of the Country House in Ireland and Britain by Christopher Ridgway,Terence Dooley in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Early Modern History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Four Courts Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781801511902
Edition
0
Topic
History
Subtopic
Early Modern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Table of contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Historic houses and their associations
  8. The painted decorations in the Long Gallery at Castletown House: new light on the intellectual lives of Thomas and Louisa Connolly
  9. 'An effect rather than a reality'? The place of the country house in the Irish gentry's perception of their world
  10. Mary Delany and the mental and creative world of Delville
  11. Frances Power Cobbe, daughter of the Irish country house
  12. Safe and unsafe houses: architecture, politics and the Irish cultural imagination
  13. 'A persevering proclamation of gospel truth': the 3rd early of Roden and evangelical Christianity at Tollymore Park and Dundalk House, c.1820-70
  14. Irish country house libraries and social change, 1650-1750
  15. The Moore brothers and the library at Moore Hall: differing visions of its legacy in a new Ireland
  16. An intergenerational chronicle: the library at Adare manor, Co. Limerick
  17. Photographers and antiquarians in Paris: Goddard Orpen and Eugene Atget
  18. From muniment room to online access: family and estate archives at Cowdray House, Knole and Ham House
  19. Reading the eighteenth-century print room
  20. The house of ideas
  21. The library at Annes Grove
  22. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  23. INDEX