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Beyond the Grand Tour - Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Grand Tour - Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour (Hardcover)
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Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as
synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour, a journey
undertaken by elite young males from northern Europe to the centres
of the arts and antiquity in Italy. Taking a somewhat different
perspective, this volume builds upon recent research that pushes
beyond this narrow orthodoxy and which decentres Italy as the
ultimate destination of European travellers. Instead, it explores a
much broader pattern of travel, undertaken by people of varied
backgrounds and with divergent motives for travelling. By tapping
into current reactions against the reification of the Grand Tour as
a unique and distinctive practice, this volume represents an
important contribution to the ongoing process of resituating the
Grand Tour as part of a wider context of travel and
topographicalmwriting. Focusing upon practices of travel in
northern and western Europe rather than in Italy, particularly in
Britain, the Low Countries and Germany, the essays in this
collection highlight how itineraries continually evolved in
response to changing political, economic and intellectual contexts.
In so doing, the reasons for travel in northern Europe are
subjected to a similar level of detailed analysis as has previously
only been directed on Italy. By doing this, the volume demonstrates
the variety of travel experiences, including the many shorter
journeys made for pleasure, health, education and business
undertaken by travellers of varying age and background across the
period. In this way the volume brings to the fore the experiences
of varied categories of traveller - from children to businessmen -
which have traditionally been largely invisible in the
historiography of travel.
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