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The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond and Banaster Maynard (Paperback)
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The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond and Banaster Maynard (Paperback)
Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Series
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Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful
English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned
but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century
figures such as John Evelyn), this study reassesses the early
origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the 'Grand Tour'.
Usually denoted primarily as a post-Restoration and
eighteenth-century activity, the basis of the long term English
fascination with the 'Grand Tour' was firmly rooted in the
mid-Tudor and early-Stuart periods. Such travels were usually
prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy,
the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism, and the expediencies of
political or religious exile. The outbreak of the English Civil War
during the late-1640s acted as a powerful stimulus to this kind of
travel for male members of both royalist and parliamentarian
families, as a means of distancing them from the social upheavals
back home as well as broadening their intellectual horizons. The
extensive editorial introductions to this publication of the
experiences of three young Englishmen also consider how their
travel records have survived in a variety of literary forms,
including personal diaries (Montagu), family letters (Hammond) and
formal prose records (Maynard's travels were written up by his
servant, Robert Moody), and how these texts should now be
interpreted not in isolation but alongside the diverse collections
of prints, engravings, curiosities, coins and antiquities assembled
by such travellers.
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