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The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart Travellers in Europe
Edward Chaney
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Hardback. The cultural, political and specifically religious experiences of these adventurers had an effect on British history that is impossible to overestimate, with the influence most strongly evident in the art, architecture and furniture styles of the Jacobean period. Num Pages: 336 pages, 70 bw integrated, 12 colour in 8pp plates, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 38. Weight in Grams: 706.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780767833
SKU
V9781780767833
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About Edward Chaney
Edward Chaney is Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts and Chair of the History of Collecting Research Centre at Southampton Solent University. Timothy Wilks is Professor of Cultural History at Southampton Solent University.
Reviews for The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart Travellers in Europe
'A timely, original and superbly illustrated demonstration of the European character of English culture.' -[Philip Mansel] 'An excellent study of seventeenth century travel by the leading specialists in the field.' -[Jeremy Black] 'A lucid, entertaining and deeply learned account which brilliantly reconstructs the intellectual stimulus and daily realities of cultural travel in early seventeenth-century Europe.'-[Gordon Higgott];