The building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England

《英国的建设》探讨了宗教改革后世纪的城乡更新问题。它挑战了“大重建”的争论，证明了这一时期的建筑方法集中在修道院遗址和各种教堂财产的适应和修改上，而不是创造新的建筑。这本书通过对政府立法、合同和账目以及口头描述的考察，探讨了语言如何塑造人们对建筑物的态度。它将各种建筑物，包括民用建筑、学校、救济院、乡村住宅和城市住宅置于一个共同框架内。

The building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England explores issues of urban and rural renewal in the century after the reformation. It challenges the 'Great Re-building' debate by demonstrating that the approach to building in this period focused on the adaptation and modification of monastic sites and various church properties rather than the creation of new buildings. The book looks at the way language shaped attitudes to buildings through an examination of government legislation, contracts and accounts and verbal description. It places all kinds of structures, including a civic building, schools, alms houses, country houses and urban dwellings within a common framework.