Book condition is Very Good+; with a Very Good+ dust jacket. Minimal wear to jacket, slight lean to spine. Text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout. ; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; 11.42 X 10 X 1.18 inches; 252 pages.

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Title: THE ROYAL PALACES OF TUDOR ENGLAND Architecture and Court Life, 1460-1547
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press, New Haven
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0300054203
ISBN 13: 9780300054200
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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The royal palaces of the Tudor period - Hampton Court Palace, the Tower of London, Greenwich Palace, St James' Palace, Nonesuch, Whitehall and Richmond Palace, amongst others - are the subject of this illustrated book, in which the author examines the way in which Tudor palaces functioned on the inside. Every aspect of palace life - from the deliberations of the Star Chamber to the tennis courts at Whitehall to the problems of providing sanitation for 800 people - is covered in detail, as well as the architectural history of not only the most important palaces, but also a selection of 'lesser' houses. Thurley begins with the castles and palaces of early medieval England and Burgundy, moves on through those built by Henry VII, focusing finally on the many palaces lived in and built by Henry VIII for his itinerant court. The result is both a study of the development of architectural style and form in the critical formative years of early sixteenth-century England and a work of social history which throws completely new light on the way in which Tudor government functioned and on the personality and changing habits of Henry VIII. The author is now responsible for Hampton Court Palace, Kew Palace and the Tower of London: he recently masterminded the restoration of the Tudor Kitchens and the King's Apartments at Hampton Court.

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