The Cotswolds : a cultural history

Material type: 図書

Author: Jane Bingham

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Publication date: 2009

Material Format: Paper

Capacity, size, etc.: 21 cm

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Note (General)：: Includes bibliographical references and indexesSummary: "With its gentle hills and timeless villages, the Cotswold countryside is a vision of rural ca...

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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 9780195398755
Title: The Cotswolds : a cultural history
Author/Editor: Jane Bingham
Author Heading: Bingham, Jane
Publication, Distribution, etc.: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 2009
Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2009
Size: 21 cm
Place of Publication (Country Code): us
Text Language Code: en
Subject Heading: Cotswold Hills (England) -- History
Cotswold Hills (England) -- Social life and customs
Cotswold Hills (England) -- Social conditions
LCC: DA670.C83
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Summary: "With its gentle hills and timeless villages, the Cotswold countryside is a vision of rural calm, but the region's history reveals a darker picture. Over the centuries, people in the Cotswolds have known prosperity, but they have also experienced war, poverty, and despair. Lying between the provinces and the capital, the region has been home to kings and aristocrats, and has played a dramatic role in the story of Britain. Everywhere in the Cotswolds are reminders of the past: prehistoric monuments, ruined Roman villas, and Tudor mansions. Wealthy medieval wool merchants paid for fine churches and manor houses. Later, the landscape was scarred by the English Civil War, while evidence of an industrial past can be seen in the mills and factories of the south-west. After the wool trade reached its peak in the fifteenth century, the fortunes of the Cotswolds suffered a slow decline. By the 1890s poverty was widespread and villages were sinking into picturesque decay. It was around this time that William M
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