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Europe Within Reach: Netherlandish Travellers on the Grand Tour and Beyond (1585-1750)

Europe Within Reach: Netherlandish Travellers on the Grand Tour and Beyond (1585-1750)

Verhoeven, Gerrit
Webb, Diane

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral EuropeGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9004292713
ISBN13: 9789004292710
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 3 2015
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
In Europe within Reach Gerrit Verhoeven traces some sweeping evolutions in the early modern travel behaviour of Dutch and Flemish elites (1585-1750), as the classical Grand Tour was slowly but surely overshadowed by other types of travelling.
Leisure trips to Paris, London or Berlin, a cours pittoresque along the Rhine, domestic trips in the Low Countries and a series of other destinations gained ground, while new sorts of travellers cropped up: female and middle-class travellers, domestic servants, children, youngsters and the elderly.
Verhoeven does not only trace these evolutions, but also explains why Netherlandish travellers gradually turned into art connoisseurs; why they were spellbound by sites of memory and by rugged landscapes; or why all sorts of fashionable gadgets and thingies were bought on the way.

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