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The peacock summer
At twenty-six, Lillian feels trapped by life. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she expected it would. To her it seems she is just another object captured within the walls of Cloudesley, her husband's beautiful manor house tucked away high in the Chiltern Hills. But, with a young step-son and a sister to care for, Lillian accepts there is no way out for her. Then Charles makes an arrangement with an enigmatic artist visiting their home and his presence will unbalance everything she thought she knew and understood. Maggie Oberon ran from the hurt and resentment she caused. Half a world away, in Australia, it was easier to forget, to pretend she didn't care. But when her elderly grandmother, Lillian, falls ill she must head back to Cloudesley. Forced to face her past, Maggie fights to hold herself and her family's legacy together as she learns that all she thought was real, all that she held so close, was never as it seemed. Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the dark secrets that could free them both.
Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor
During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life became a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation or the manifestation of material opulence. The new luxury was instead the comfortably arranged life at home. This book is about the traces of this change, its approach and consequences and its anchoring in the material and social life of the Swedish manor. The comfort revolution of the eighteenth century was clearly associated with both new types of furniture and new ways of furnishing. An important aspect of the development of comfort was the new mobility and flexibility in form and function that the home and its interior now showed. Through the home of the Wadenstierna family on the country estate of Näs, north of Stockholm, the comfortable everyday life was set by their various tables - at writing desks, sewing tables, dressing tables, coffee tables and games tables.
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Peculiar ground : a novel
\"It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war. Dissenters shelter in the woods, lovers rendezvous in secret enclaves, and outsiders--migrants fleeing the plague--find no mercy. Three centuries later, far away in Berlin, another wall is raised, while at Wychwood, an erotic entanglement over one sticky, languorous weekend in 1961 is overshadowed by news of historic change. Young Nell, whose father manages the estate, grows up amid dramatic upheavals as the great house is invaded: a pop festival by the lake, a television crew in the dining room, a Great Storm brewing. In 1989, as the Cold War peters out, a threat from a different kind of conflict reaches Wychwood's walls. Lucy Hughes-Hallett conjures an intricately structured, captivating story that explores the lives of game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats; the exuberance of young love and the pathos of aging; and the way those who try to wall others out risk finding themselves walled in. With poignancy and grace, she illuminates a place where past and present are inextricably linked by stories, legends, and history--and by one patch of peculiar ground.\"--Amazon.com.
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Wine, Wealth, and the State in Late Antique Egypt
The \"glorious house\" of the senatorial family of the Flavii Apiones is the best documented economic entity of the Roman Empire during the fifth through seventh centuries, that critical period of transition between the classical world and the Middle Ages. For decades, the rich but fragmentary manuscript evidence that this large agricultural estate left behind, preserved for 1,400 years by the desiccating sands of Egypt, has been central to arguments concerning the agrarian and fiscal history of Late Antiquity, including the rise of feudalism.
Wine, Wealth, and the State in Late Antique Egyptis the most authoritative synthesis concerning the economy of the Apion estate to appear to date. T. M. Hickey examines the records of the family's wine production in the sixth century in order to shed light on ancient economic practices and economic theory, as well as on the wine industry and on estate management. Based on careful study of the original manuscripts, including unpublished documents from the estate archive, he presents controversial conclusions, much at odds with the \"top down\" models currently dominating the scholarship.
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CEMETERIES OF THE MANOR RESIDENCIES OF LITHUANIA – ORIGINAL ACCENTS OF THE LANDSCAPE / LIETUVOS DVARŲ SODYBŲ KAPINĖS – SAVITAS KRAŠTOVAIZDŽIO AKCENTAS
The sacral and memorial architecture of Lithuanian manors is unique part of the heritage of Lithuanian manors. The manor residencies of Lithuania abound in a variety of sacred and memorial objects: churches, chapels, mausoleums, the graveyard of tombstones and other memorials or monuments. The structure of the cemetery consists of the layout of the territory, the markers outlining the boundaries of the cemetery, greenery and the nature of the surface of the land, buildings and other objects. The aim of this research is to describe relationship of the sacral and memorial spaces with their surrounding environment, representative part of manor residencies and to present the spatial structure of the cemetery, outlining markers, greenery and other elements of architectural composition of cemeteries. Lietuvos dvarų sakralinė ir memorialinė architektūra – unikali Lietuvos dvarų paveldo dalis. Lietuvos dvarų sodybose gausu įvairių sakralinių ir memorialinių objektų: bažnyčių, koplyčių, mauzoliejų, kapinaičių bei jose esančių antkapinių paminklų ar kitų memorialinių ženklų. Bendrą kapinių vaizdą formuoja kapinių suplanavimas, ženklai, kuriais apibrėžiamos kapinių teritorijos, apželdinimas ir žemės paviršiaus ypatumai, pastatai ir kiti kapinėse esantys objektai. Straipsnio tikslas – aptarti dvarų sodybose esančių sakralinių memorialinių erdvių (kapinių) santykį su jas supančia aplinka, dvarų sodybų reprezentacine dalimi bei pristatyti kapinių erdvinę ir planinę struktūrą, aptvėrimus, želdynus bei kitus kapinaičių architektūrinę kompoziciją formuojančius akcentus.
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Great English interiors
\"Photographer Derry Moore and interior designer David Mlinaric takes readers on a panoramic tour inside some of Britain's finest buildings, guiding them through five centuries of English interior design. Mlinaric's informed text and Moore's perceptive photographs present the best examples of both public and private buildings--from sixteenth-century Haddon Hall, Chastleton and Knole to seventeenth-century Hatfield and Wilton; Houghton Hall and Syon House from the eighteenth century; Apsley House, the Palace of Westminster and Waddesdon Manor from the nineteenth; and twentieth-century examples including Charleston and the Apollo Victoria Theatre. The work of British masters including Inigo Jones, William Kent and Robert Adam, as well as of influential twentieth-century tastemakers such as Nancy Lancaster, Pauline de Rothschild and David Hicks, is revealed in striking photographs and authoritative texts, which enlighten readers to the events and personalities that lend each site its particular cultural significance. Anglophiles, armchair tourists and lovers of grand interiors will relish the photographs of these wonderful buildings, while discovering more about the designers and architects who built them, charting the evolution that has made British style so alluring, enduring and widely imitated over the centuries'\"--Jacket.
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Beach Abstract Buy Closes at $3.5 Million
The deal is funded with a five-year loan of $1.5 million from Armor Bank of Forrest City. Clark Contractors acquired the 1.03-acre MDH Builders development in May 2010 at a $1 million foreclosure sale. The deal is funded with a 40-year loan of $246,080 from the Farm Service Agency, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Olof Svart's Two Manors: Career and Ostentation in Early Sixteenth-Century Sweden and Finland
This paper focuses on two manors, Kumo in Finland and Duvnäs in Sweden, through early sixteenth-century written sources and material remains. Both were, one after the other, in the custody of Olof Svart (
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1547), who was one of Gustav I’s earliest administrators. Through a combination of historical and archaeological methods, including map studies, a successful career in the service of Sweden’s first Early Modern king is traced and placed in the cultural landscape.
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