The building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England

伊丽莎白时代和雅各布时代的英国建筑探讨了改革后一个世纪的城乡更新问题。它通过证明这一时期的建筑方法侧重于修道院遗址和各种教堂财产的适应和修改，而不是建造新建筑，挑战了“伟大的重建”的辩论。这本书通过对政府立法、合同和账目以及口头描述的研究，探讨了语言如何塑造人们对建筑的态度。它将所有类型的建筑，包括公民建筑、学校、救济院、乡村房屋和城市住宅放在一个共同的框架内。

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.