The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 4, Seventeenth-Century Britain  19824

Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting

• The Seventeenth Century  Joseph Rykwert[rtoc]
  • The Tudor inheritance
    • Defences and navigation
    • Renaissance
    • Universities and the new learning
  • The arts in Britain between Elizabeth and James
  • Kings, Church and Parliament
    • The King and parliament
    • The King and the Church
    • Britain and Europe
    • Senates, academies and the promise of harmony
    • The harmony of faith
    • The Court and the visual arts
  • Civil War and the Commonwealth
    • Intellectual and economic life in transition
  • The Restoration[/rtoc]

Part II: Studies in the individual arts

1. The Authorised Version of the Bible  David Daniell
2. Architecture  Andor Gomme[rtoc]
   • The Jacobean house
   • Inigo Jones and English classicism
   • Jones and his associaties
   • Mannerism and the vernacular tradition
   • The gentry house
   • Christopher Wren[/rtoc]
3. Masques and Pageants  Inga-Stina Ewbank[rtoc]
   • Folk festivities
   • Tournaments and mock-battles
   • Royal entries and progresses
   • Lord Mayors’ Shows
   • The masque[/rtoc]
4. Literature and Drama  George Parfitt[rtoc]
   • A theatre of satire and revenge
   • Public poetry from Ben Jonson to John Dryden
   • Love, God and the metaphysical lyric
   • Finding voices in prose[/rtoc]
5. The City of London  Philippa Glanville
6. Music: Paradise and Paradox in the Seventeenth Century  Wilfrid Mellers[rtoc]
   • Prelude: the forgotten garden
   • From motet to madrigal
   • Jacobean music for organ and virginals
   • Lute, ayre, and consort music for strings
   • Masque and the post-Renaissance philosophy of dance
   • Interlude: ‘The Dishonour of the Kingdom’
   • Roundhead and Cavalier in the music of the interregnum
   • Interlude: monarchy restored, in a new peruke
   • Masque and opera, autocracy and democracy in the Restoration theatre
   • Postlude: the Old Age out[/rtoc]
7. Belton House, Grantham  Andor Gomme
8. Painting: from Astraea to Augustus  John Murdoch[rtoc]
   • The Protestant problem with images
   • The image of the Monarch
   • The royal family
   • Immigrant painters
   • Rubens’s Whitehall ceiling
   • The image of an aristocracy
   • A uniform for the times
   • Portraits for merchants and professionals
   • The Royal Society and the face of the natural world
   • Drawing: the mother of art
   • The study of Man
   • The Augustan élite
   • A national school[/rtoc]
9. Nicholas Stone and Early Stuart Sculpture  Adam White
10. Decorative and Applied Arts  Geoffrey Beard[rtoc]
    • The wainscoted room
    • The staircase
    • Plasterwork
    • Wood and stone carving
    • Tapestry
    • Costume and carpets
    • Furniture
    • Clocks
    • Gold and silver
    • Wrought iron
    • Glass and pottery
    • Bookbindings[/rtoc]

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