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Adam Nicolson.
Arcadia: The Dream of Perfection in Renaissance England.
Published London: HarperCollins, 2009.
(Previously published in hardback 2008, under the title Earls of Paradise: England and the Dream of Perfection; some passages have been revised for this paperback edition).
ISBN 9780007240531.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives plc.
Size: 128x196x20mm.
Page count: text xvii,284pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good to very good: an unused copy with some mild shop wear, text pages starting to yellow with age.

This item £4.50
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[Publisher’s price £8.99]
Weight without packaging: 227g.

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Emphasis entirely post-medieval. Contents:
Arcadia in renaissance England 1520-1650; Wiltshire Downs as theatre for pastoral; Inherited community of the Middle Ages; Pembrokes impose their vision on Wilton 1542-70; Workings of downland society; Making of the Pembroke Arcadia 1570-86; Mary Pembroke's court at Wilton 1586-1601; As You Like It at Wilton Dec. 1603; Ancient communities & the threat of modernity; Careers of William, Earl of Pembroke, & Philip, Earl of Montgomery, 1601-30; Perfecting of Wilton, 1630-40; Break-up of Arcadian England 1640-50; Destruction of the downland communities 1650-1830.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations:16 pages of plates, mostly in colour
Maps & plans:2
Genealogies: 1
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 9pp
Index: yes

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See also | Aristocracy | Tudor Britain | Medievalism |
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