Table of Contents

Part I. The Thames Valley: 1. The Thames Valley: historical background; 2. The Thames Valley: architectural introduction; 3. Household expansion, chambers and lodgings; 4. The Thames Valley: bibliography; 5. The Thames Valley: survey; Appendix 1. The Thames Valley castles: residential additions; Appendix 2. The Thames Valley: residential licences to crenellate; Part II. London and South-East England: 6. London: an introduction; 7. London: bibliography; 8. London: survey; 9. South-East England: historical background; 10. South-East England: architectural introduction; 11. The impact of the Hundred Years' War on English domestic architecture; 12. South-East England: bibliography; 13. South-East England: survey; Appendix 3. London and South-East England castles: residential additions; Appendix 4. London and South-East England: residential licences to crenellate; Part III. South-West England: 14. South-West England: historical background; 15. South-West England: architectural introduction; 16. Secular art: 1300–1500; 17. South-West England: bibliography; 18. South-West England: survey; Appendix 5. South-West England castles: residential additions; Appendix 6. South-West England: residential licences to crenellate; Appendix 7. The architectural value of John Leland and the Buck brothers.

Promotional Information

The third volume in the survey of great houses of Medieval England and Wales, first published in 2006, examines Southern England.

About the Author

ANTHONY EMERY, FSA, was a founder commissioner of English Heritage, 1984-90, and chairman of the Bath Archaeological Trust, 1994-2001. His business career was spent as chairman or senior director of several companies of Reed International plc, 1975-88. His previous publications include the monograph Dartington Hall (OUP, 1970) and the three-volume series, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500. Anthony Emery lives in the Cotswolds near Bath and is now researching a modest architectural study on centres of power in England and Europe during the Hundred Years' War.

Reviews

'Emery's exhaustive survey of the domestic architecture of England and Wales make a considerable contribution to our understanding of domestic architecture and should probe indispensable to scholars of England's built environment during the Middle Ages.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'The eagerly awaited and final volume of Anthony Emery's trilogy is now with us, and is as rich and lucid as its predecessors. This achievement of single-handed scholarship is prodigious and will stand for many years as a monument to Emery's application and skill and Cambridge University Press's vision and quality as pubkishers.' Journal of Medieval Archaeology