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The evolution of the Grand Tour : Anglo-Italian cultural relations since the Renaissance.
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ISBN: 0714644749 Year: 2006 Publisher: London Routledge/Taylor & Francis

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Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy Englishmen would complete their education on the continent, the Grand Tour is here investigated in a wider context, from the decline of the Roman Empire to recent times. Authors from Chaucer to Erasmus came to mock the custom but even the Reformation did not stop the urge to travel. From the mid-sixteenth century, northern Europeans justified travel to the south in terms of education. The English had previously travelled to Italy to study the classics; now they travelled to learn Italian and study medicine, diplomacy, dancing, riding, fencing, and, eventually, art and architecture. Famous men, and an increasing proportion of women, all contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate European culture. Documenting the lives and travels of these personalities, Professor Chaney's remarkable book provides a complete picture of one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of western civilisation.


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British travel writers, 1837-1875
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ISBN: 0810393611 Year: 1996 Volume: 166 Publisher: Detroit ; Washington ; London Gale Research

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British travel writers, 1876-1909
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ISBN: 0810399377 Year: 1997 Publisher: Detroit Gale

British travellers in Holland during the Stuart period : Edward Browne and John Locke as tourists in the United Provinces
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ISBN: 9004094822 9004246940 Year: 1993 Volume: 42 Publisher: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill,

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The book is a comprehensive study of British travel in the United Provinces during the Stuart Period and largely based on journals and correspondence never before published. After a discussion of travel journals and correspondence as a literary genre with conventions of its own, the book focuses on the more concrete activities of the tourist: transport, accommodation and sightseeing. A large number of guidebooks provided the necessary information and helped the tourist to write his observations on Holland and the Dutch. Letters by Edward Browne (1644-1708), passages from the journal of John Locke (1632-1704) and the financial accounts of the third Earl of Orrery (1670-1703) take the reader through most of the provinces and give a first-hand impression of what travel was like for various categories of tourists in those days. This book is indispensable for all scholars of Anglo-Dutch relations in this period who are interested in learning about day to day experiences of Britons visiting Holland.

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Geography --- Browne, E. --- Locke, John --- anno 1600-1699 --- Netherlands --- Great Britain --- British --- Britanniques --- Travel --- History --- Voyages --- Histoire --- Brown, Edward, --- Locke, John, --- Journeys --- Pays-Bas --- Description and travel --- Descriptions et voyages --- 910.4 <41> --- 094:910.4 --- -British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen----Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen --- -Brown, Edward --- -Locke, John --- -ロック --- 로크 --- -Travel --- -Netherlands --- Description and travel. --- -Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen----Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- -094:910.4 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen --- British people --- 910.4 <41> Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen----Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 094:910.4 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen --- Browne, Edward, --- Philanthropus, --- Lokk, Dzhon, --- Lūk, Jūn, --- Lo-kʻo, --- Locke, Giovanni, --- Lock, --- Lock, John, --- Rokku, Jon, --- לוק, י׳ון, --- Browne, Edward

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