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Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 2001. Softcover. VG- with light foxing to insides of covers and light general shelf wear but o/w clean and tight.. Color-photographic wraps with white lettering on spine. 312 pp. with a few color plates and many bw illustrations. "It has long been held that the Scottish chateaux, perhaps the best known of Scottish buildings, were castles, defensive strongholds built in a country where the Renaissance architecture was commonly believed to be somewhat backward. As Charles McKean demonstrates in this radical reassessment of the development of the country house in Renaissance Scotland, however, the image of 'MacSavage' which has dominated our view of the country's architecture during the period is more myth than truth. On the contrary, the architectural demands of a cultured nation participating in European ideas were satisfied by a flowering of domestic architecture that symbolised its status and growing sophistication. In these 'castle-wise country houses' battlements…
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- Title The Scottish Chateau
- Author Charles McKean
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Sutton Publishing Ltd, Phoenix Mill
- Date May 20, 2004
- ISBN 9780750935272 / 0750935278
- Dewey Decimal Code 720.942
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The Scottish Chateau: The Country House of Renaissance Scotland
by McKean, Charles
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