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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Cotswolds
    sub title: a cultural history
  name:
    name part: Bingham, Jane
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: "With its gentle hills and timeless villages, the Cotswold countryside is a vision of rural calm, but the region's history reveals a darker picture. Over the centuries, people in the Cotswolds have known prosperity, but they have also experienced war, poverty, and despair. Lying between the provinces and the capital, the region has been home to kings and aristocrats, and has played a dramatic role in the story of Britain. Everywhere in the Cotswolds are reminders of the past: prehistoric monuments, ruined Roman villas, and Tudor mansions. Wealthy medieval wool merchants paid for fine churches and manor houses. Later, the landscape was scarred by the English Civil War, while evidence of an industrial past can be seen in the mills and factories of the south-west. After the wool trade reached its peak in the fifteenth century, the fortunes of the Cotswolds suffered a slow decline. By the 1890s poverty was widespread and villages were sinking into picturesque decay. It was around this time that William Morris and his followers discovered the area and established thriving centers for Arts and Crafts. In the following century writers and artists moved to the Cotswolds and tourism gathered pace. Today, the region continues to attract visitors, as well as country-weekenders and celebrities. Observing such changes, and describing the landscape, has been a lively company of writers, artists, and musicians. Some belong to a particular place, while others have viewed the region as outsiders. In their writings, art, and music, they have all celebrated the distinctive character of the Cotswolds"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction A Country Made of Men's Visions Looking at the Land The History of the Cotswolds Changing Views: Commentators on the Cotswolds Living Landscape or Heritage Park? Recent Views: Behind the Pretty Pictures The Insiders' View Imagination and Images Responses to the Landscape Chapter One Ancient Echoes: From Prehistory to the Coming of the Anglo-Saxons Exploring Belas Knap Tombs from the Stone Age At the Rollright Stones Bronze-Age Survivals Clues from the Celts Remembering the Romans Tracing the Ancient Ways After the Romans Anglo-Saxon Echoes Chapter Two Finding God in Gloucestershire: Saints, Churches and Clerics Early Abbeys and the Boy Saint of Winchcombe Sacred Sites and Saxon Sculptures Norman Churches and Carvings Stories on Walls Woolgothic Wonders The End of the Abbeys Fame and Fraud at Hailes Abbey Visitors at the Rectory: Jane Austen and John Wesley John Keble at Eastleach Non-Conformism: A Different Way of Worship Selsey Church: Pre-Raphaelite Showcase What Next? Chapter Three Living off the Land: Sheep, Crops and Stone Wealth from Wool Fields, Commons and Walls Good Times and Bad Times for Farmers Experiments and Communities: Charterville and Whiteway Old Mont of Enstone: A Life on the Land Farming Today: Super-stars and Strugglers The Stone and the Magician: Quarries and Quarrymen Using the Stone: Stonemasons and Dry-stone Wallers Building Today: The Tradition Continues Chapter Four The Cotswolds at War: Battlefields, Memories and Memorials The Civil War Begins: The Battle of Edgehill Fighting on the Edge: The Battle of Lansdown A Region at War Damage and Confusion The Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold: The End of the Fighting Images of Cavaliers: Stow-on-the-Wold and Swinbrook The Burford Levellers Two World Wars Bertie, May and Mrs. Fish in Wartime Modern Times Chapter Five Posh Cotswolds: Royalty, Aristocracy and Celebrities Woodstock Palace: Kings and Queens in the Forest Minster Lovell and a Dreadful Doom Sude…
  note: Jane Bingham.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    geographic: Cotswold Hills (England)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Cotswold Hills (England)
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Cotswold Hills (England)
    topic: Social conditions
  classification: DA670.C83 B45 2009
  classification: 942.4/17
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Landscapes of the imagination
  identifier: 9780195398762 (hardback)
  identifier: 0195398769 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780195398755 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0195398750 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2009038286
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090915
    record change date: 20151201114431.0
    record identifier: in00002506061