The Grand Tour And The Great Rebellion
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Author | : Edward Chaney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317973666 |
The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production. 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.
Author | : Edward Chaney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
This book studies Richard Lassels and his tour within the context of English society in the seventeenth century.
Author | : Edward Chaney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : Edward Chaney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9788877600196 |
Author | : Edward Chaney |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2013-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857735314 |
Although the eighteenth century is traditionally seen as the age of the Grand Tour, it was in fact the continental travel of Jacobean noblemen which really constituted the beginning of the Tour as an institutionalized phenomenon. James I's peace treaty with Spain in 1604 rendered travel to Catholic Europe both safer and more respectable than it had been under the Tudors and opened up the continent to a new generation of aristocratic explorers, enquirers and adventurers. This book examines the political and cultural significance of the encounters that resulted, focusing in particular on two of England's greatest, and newly united, families: the Cecils and the Howards. It also considers the ways in which Protestants and Catholics experienced the aesthetic and intellectual stimulus of European travel and how the cultural experiences of the travellers formed the essential ingredients in what became the Grand Tour.
Author | : John Gallagher |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2019-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192574930 |
In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle, Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England's 'educational revolution'. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel. Learning Languages offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England's encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.
Author | : Arturo Tosi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108487270 |
Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction enriched by the amusing stories and vivid quotations collected from travellers' writings, providing crucial insights into the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of European languages.
Author | : Susan Lamb |
Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780874139211 |
This study is the first to identify and examine the circulations and mutually constitutive relations among literature, tourism, and the wider culture in the 18th century. Gendering emerges as a key mechanism both for those who brought travel home and for those who were influenced by it in other ways.
Author | : Linda Levy Peck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2018-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107034027 |
Offers a compelling story of mercantile wealth and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder.
Author | : a foreword by Lisa Jardine |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351921916 |
Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England-to France, Germany, the Low Countries and America-and as inner, mental withdrawal. In the process, a strikingly wide variety of contemporary sources comes under scrutiny, including letters, diaries, plays, treatises, translations and poetry. The extent to which the richness and disparateness of these modes of writing militates against or constructs a recognisable 'rhetoric' of exile is one of the book's overriding themes. Also under consideration is the degree to which exilic writing in this period is intended for public consumption, a product of private reflection, or characterised by a coalescence of the two. Importantly, this volume extends the chronological range of the English Revolution beyond 1660 by demonstrating that exile during the Restoration formed a meaningful continuum with displacement during the civil wars of the mid-century. This in-depth and overdue study of prominent and hitherto obscure exiles, conspicuously diverse in political and religious allegiance yet inextricably bound by the shared experience of displacement, will be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines.