1st Edition

Beyond the Grand Tour Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour

Edited By Rosemary Sweet, Gerrit Verhoeven, Sarah Goldsmith Copyright 2017
240 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more
1. Introduction

[Sarah Goldsmith, Rosemary Sweet and Gerrit Verhoeven]

Part 1: Travel and Elite Formation

2. The Duc de Rohan’s Voiage of 1600: Gallocentric Travel to England in the Formation of a French Noble

[Emma Pauncefort]

3. Foubert’s Academy: British and Irish Elite Formation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Paris and London

[Richard Ansell]

4. The Social Challenge: Northern and Central European Societies on the Eighteenth-Century Aristocratic Grand Tour

[Sarah Goldsmith]

5. Abroad, or Still "At Home"?: Young Noblemen from the Czech Lands and the Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

[Eva Chodějovská and Zdeněk Hojda]

6. Between Specialization and Encyclopaedic Knowledge: Educational Travelling and Court Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century Germany

[Mathis Leibetseder]

Part 2: Travel for Leisure and Business

7. The Petit Tour to Spa, 1763-1787

[Richard Bates]

8. Amsterdam as Global Market and Meeting Place of Nations: Perspectives of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Travellers in Holland

[Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau]

9. The European "Grand Tour" of Italian Entrepreneurs

[Corine Maitte]

Part 3: New Patterns of Travel

10. Young Cosmopolitans: Flemish and Dutch Youths and Their Travel Behaviour (From the Late Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century)

[Gerrit Verhoeven]

11. Revolutionary Ruins: The Re-Imagination of French Touristic Sites During the Peace of Amiens

[Elodie Duché]

Biography

Rosemary Sweet is Professor of Urban History at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester.

Gerrit Verhoeven lectures in Early Modern History at the universities of Antwerp, Ghent and Leiden.

Sarah Goldsmith is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leicester.