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Nicholas Cooper's Distinctive Behavior

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In order to express the upper classes’ distinctive behaviour, Nicholas Cooper seeks to define how more prestigious individuals explicitly display their manners in the context of their own homes to explicitly reveal their rank in the greater society. On the basis of interpreting other literature and accounts, Cooper found that the way how early modern period houses were laid out and furnished, appeared to reflect the status of the influential because of the prestigious’ desire to be known for their social prominence. Cooper concluded that architectural expression has evolved from being an ideological force to becoming the “rules” of behaviour in which guided the way the affluent were supposed to behave. Cooper’s interest in the examination
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