The Jacobean Grand Tour

Early Stuart Travellers in Europe

Edward Chaney, Timothy Wilks

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780857735317
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia social

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, families: the Cecils and the Howards. It also considers the ways in which Protestants and Catholics experienced the aesthetic and intellectual stimulus of European travel and how the cultural experiences of the travellers formed the essential ingredients in what became the Grand Tour.

Table of contents

• Author Biography
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Colour Plate Section
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• 1. ‘The Face of an Angell’ (and the Anglo-Spanish Business)
• 2. The Fashioning of Sir John Finet
• 3. Paris and ‘the Grand Tour of France’
• 4. Into Aquitania
• 5. In Search of Gallia Narbonensis
• 6. Pont du Gard to Pontius Pilate
• 7. ‘An Iching Humor to Retourne’
• 8. ‘On the Way unto Venice’
• 9. Venice
• 10. Padua
• 11. Out of Italy
• 12. Commodities by Ship
• 13. The Afterlife of a Portrait
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Plates
• Back Cover