Robert Willis, John Willis Clark

Selections from the Architectural History of the University of Cambridge

Peterhouse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The complete text of Willis' Architectural History of the University of Cambridge relating specifically to Peterhouse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780521147149
• ISBN-10: 052114714X
• Artikelnr.: 26867429

Autorenporträt

Born in Bagdad, Florida, in 1927, Robert Willis served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. The conflict fired his desire for learning, and after the war ended, he attended Florida Southern College, the University of Texas, and capping it off with a PhD from Florida State University. Careers in higher education and, later, real estate followed. Willis has pursued writing with earnest passion since the 1960s. A fan of serious fiction, sometimes with comic overtones, he admires writers like Twain, Hemingway, even the classical bards like Shakespeare and Homer. The list goes on....

Inhaltsangabe

1. History of the site
2. History of the buildings derived from the Bursars' Rolls
3. Comparison of the existing buildings with the accounts, library, kitchen, hall and buttery, combination room, master's chambers, north range and other buildings
4. Buildings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
5. Works of the eighteenth century
6. History of the Chapel
7. History of the old Chapel
or, Church of St Mary the Less
8. History of particular buildings: hall, combination room, master's lodge
Chronological summary
Appendix.