Great Rebuildings Of Tudor And Stuart England

Rural England''s Great Rebuilding of 1570-1640, first identified by W.G. Hoskins in 1953, has been vigorously debated ever since. Some critics have re-dated it on a regional basis. Still more have seen Great Rebuildings around every corner, causing them to dismiss Hoskins''s thesis. In this first full-length study of the rebuilding phenomenon, Colin Platt, an accomplished architectural and social ...