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English Travelers Abroad, 1604-1667 - Their Influence on English Society and Politics, Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed)
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English Travelers Abroad, 1604-1667 - Their Influence on English Society and Politics, Revised Edition (Paperback, Revised Ed)
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The Grand Tour is usually associated with the 18th century, and
those rich young gentlemen, contemporaries of Walpole and Beckford,
who were sent to tour the continent to complete their manners in an
age when universities were at a very low ebb. In this delightful
book Stoye studies the English travellers of an earlier era, their
motives and interests, their views on architecture, painting and
music, the routes they took and the opinions they formed of the
countries they visited. The result is a valuable and enjoyable
addition to the literature of travel and to the social history of
the 17th century. (Kirkus UK)
What were the experiences of English travelers who toured Western
Europe in the seventeenth century? What influence did Continental
travel have on English society and politics? This delightful book
by John Stoye allows us to accompany the seventeenth-century
British traveler on his journeys into France, Italy, Spain, and the
Netherlands. It is a travel book for historians and a piece of
history for travellers. Using a vast range of contemporary sources,
Stoye describes the journeys of both famous figures and of more
obscure travelers, relating common itineraries and the conditions
of travel. He evokes the different types of travelers and their
motives and interests-young men on the Grand Tour with their tutors
in tow, diplomats, soldiers, religious refugees, and merchants.
Stoye considers what the travellers brought home with them, from
actual books and pictures to impressions of architecture and music
to new ways of looking at the world. He traces through letters and
diaries how travel affected the taste, education, and politics of
the upper classes of society. This book, first published in 1952,
is widely considered a classic. This new edition makes it available
in paperback for the first time, with a new preface and
illustrations, a fully revised text, and updated notes and
bibliography.
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