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English Architecture: Coming of Age, 1408-1530 - Professor Simon Thurley
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Against a background of political instability architectural initiative was captured by a new class of patrons who built in a style that expressed confidence in their worldly position and fear of the afterlife. On the very eve of the Reformation English architecture had reached a perfection that was to be destroyed by Henry VIII and new world order.
Uploaded 27-08-11
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