Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-279) and index.

1. The Anglo-Norman Settlement, the Domesday survey; the first post- Conquest castles; motte-and-bailey earthwork castles and the first stone keeps; cathedrals and monasteries; parish churches -- 2. Economic growth, the boroughs; the villages; assarting in forests and fens; demesne farming, the park, and the manor; building programmes at the greater churches; the friars; reorganization and the parish church; improving building standards at royal and episcopal palaces; the stone castle -- 3. Set-back overpopulation; deterioration of climate; the agrarian crisis of the early fourteenth century; inflation; distribution of wealth : inequalities and the main families; deteriorating public order; defensive moats; professionalization of crafts and the potter -- 4. After the Black Death, mortality and the leasing of the demesnes; dilapidations and desertions in the villages; the yeoman farmer; the dissolution of the village community -- 5. Stability at a reduced level : the church parish church rebuildings, furnishings, and the death cult; colleges, hospitals and almshouses; failures among monastic houses; diversification of resources; higher standards of comfort at the monastic houses -- 6. Conspicuous waste magnate building enterprises; furnishings and jewelry; diet; better living conditions in the towns; improved rural housing : the manor-house, the Wealden house, and the Pennine aisled hall -- 7. Reorientation under the Tudors coastal fortifications; the pre- Reformation Church; the Dissolution; plunder and reform in the secular Church; social unrest, the new landlords, enclosure; the Great Rebuilding; the Elizabethan country house; developing technologies : glass, textiles, and iron; envoi.

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