British Travellers in Holland During the Stuart Period

Edward Browne and John Locke as Tourists in the United Provinces
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-90-04-09482-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 971 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

The book is a comprehensive study of British travel in the United Provinces during the Stuart Period and largely based on journals and correspondence never before published.
After a discussion of travel journals and correspondence as a literary genre with conventions of its own, the book focuses on the more concrete activities of the tourist: transport, accommodation and sightseeing. A large number of guidebooks provided the necessary information and helped the tourist to write his observations on Holland and the Dutch.
Letters by Edward Browne (1644-1708), passages from the journal of John Locke (1632-1704) and the financial accounts of the third Earl of Orrery (1670-1703) take the reader through most of the provinces and give a first-hand impression of what travel was like for various categories of tourists in those days.
This book is indispensable for all scholars of Anglo-Dutch relations in this period who are interested in learning about day to day experiences of Britons visiting Holland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strien, C D van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

C.D. van Strien is a teacher of English in Leiden. Publications: several articles on British travel in Holland in the seventeenth century in various historical magazines. In preparation: an edition of Owen Felltham's A Brief Character of the Low Countries.