Europe within Reach
Subtitle: Netherlandish Travellers on the Grand Tour and Beyond (1585-1750)
By: by Gerrit Verhoeven ; translated by Diane Webb
Contributors: Webb, Diane, translator
Series: Egodocuments and history series -- Volume 9
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9789004292710; 9789004293335
Subjects: Elite (Social sciences); Flemings; Description and travel; Dutch; Travel; Grand tours (Education); History
Work titles: Anders reizen
Description: Transl. by Diane Webb. 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. 0Leisure 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-329) and index.