Title: English travellers abroad, 1604-1667 : their influence in English society and politics /
Authors: Stoye, John, 1917-2016
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: British Travel Europe History; Travelers Europe History; British Europe History; Travelers Europe; Travel history; Civilization history; Social Conditions history; Politics history.; Europe Description and travel Early works to 1800; England Civilization; England Civilization European influences; Great Britain History; Europe Description and travel
Abstract: What were the experiences of English travelers who toured Western Europe in the seventeenth century? What influence did Continental travel have on English society and politics? This delightful book by John Stoye allows us to accompany the seventeenth-century British traveler on his journeys into France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. It is a travel book for historians and a piece of history for travellers. Using a vast range of contemporary sources, Stoye describes the journeys of both famous figures and of more obscure travelers, relating common itineraries and the conditions of travel. He evokes the different types of travelers and their motives and interests - young men on the Grand Tour with their tutors in tow, diplomats, soldiers, religious refugees, and merchants. Stoye considers what the travellers brought home with them, from actual books and pictures to impressions of architecture and music to new ways of looking at the world. He traces through letters and diaries how travel affected the taste, education, and politics of the upper classes of society. This book, first published in 1952, is widely considered a classic. This new edition makes it available in paperback for the first time, with a new preface and illustrations, a fully revised text, and updated notes and bibliography. -- Publisher's website.
Contents: English travellers in France, 1604-1630. The young noblemen and their tutors ; The careers of Becher, Lorkin and Woodford -- English travellers in Italy. The scene of their travels ; The embassies at Venice and Turin: their influence in English society and politics ; The Giro d'Italia after 1630 ; The influence of Italian travel on English travellers -- English travellers in the Low Countries. Military volunteers and religious refugees: their place in the history of the English society ; Other travellers in the Low Countries ; The career of William Aylesbury -- English travellers in Spain. The return of the English to Spain ; Private and commercial travellers and English eccentrics in Spain -- English travellers in France after 1630. The education of Englishmen in Paris and the provinces: the triumph of a convention.