Power and Virtue

<p>This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. As new ideas developed in post-Restoration England across the realms of politics culture academia and morality so too did architectural expression of these ideas. <em>Power and Virtue </em>articulately engages English architecture with notions of power and virtue in terms of empirical knowledge on the one hand and humanism and virtuosi on the other.</p><p>Aimed at an academic readership in history and theory of architecture and the history of English architecture this unique study will also interest those studying the ideas of material culture.</p>