ABSTRACT
Perhaps the best-known of all architectural histories is the late Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. There is a ten-volume survey of world architecture by various authors, in the series Great Ages of World Architecture and a corpus of illustrations in H. Millon, Key Monuments of the History of Architecture. Undoubtedly the best introduction to European architecture from early Christian times to the present is N. Pevsner's Outline of European Architecture. British architecture is naturally well covered by books in English, and only a few of the most recent and important can be mentioned. For the general development of ecclesiastical architecture in England, see the relevant volumes of the Oxford History of English Art and the Pelican History of Art. Archaeologists and local historians have made significant contributions to our knowledge of smaller houses and their development in the earlier periods.
