ABSTRACT
Books which represent other aspects of cultural and intellectual life include Oliver Millar, The Age of Charles I: Painting in England, 1620-1649 (1972), a lavishly illustrated volume which traces the development of portraiture; Percy A. Scholes, The Puritans and Music in England and New England (Oxford, 1934), a well-researched account of the Puritans’ involvement with music, including opera, church music, organs and psalms; Howard Clovin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 (1978); Colin Platt, The Great Rebuildings of Tudor and Stuart England (1994), which provides a succinct introduction to the major themes in English domestic architecture; Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, Architecture without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism under Cromwell (Manchester, 1995), which gives a total reappraisal of the career of Inigo Jones and the architectural creativity of the period; Michael Leapman, Inigo: The Life of Inigo Jones: Architect of the English Renaissance (2003), the first major biography for seventy-five years, which provides a vivid portrait of the man; Paul Jeffery, The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren (1996), which is a study of their design and building; Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcroft and Perez Zagorin, eds, Philosophy, Science and Religion in England, 1640-1700 (Cambridge, 1992); and Perez Zagorin, History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954).
