The Power Houses -- The Mediaeval Household -- The Mediaeval House -- The Elizabethan And Jacobean House -- The Formal House: 1630-1720 -- First Interlude: Virtuosos And Dilettanti -- The Social House: 1720-70 -- The Arrival Of Informality: 1770-1830 -- Second Interlude: Early Country-house Technology -- The Moral House: 1830-1900 -- The Indian Summer: 1900-40. Mark Girouard. Based On The Author's Slade Lectures Given At Oxford University In 1975-76. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.