TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verhoeven,Gerrit
AU  - Webb,Diane
TI  - Europe within Reach: Netherlandish Travellers on the Grand Tour and Beyond (1585-1750) 
T2  - Egodocuments and history series,
SN  - 9789004293335
AV  - D915 .V4713 2015
U1  - 914.04/20893931 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Dutch
KW  - Travel
KW  - History
KW  - Europe
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Flemings
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Belgium
KW  - Flanders
KW  - Grand tours (Education)
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-329) and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Elite Travellers -- 2 Objectives -- 3 Servants -- 4 Other Travellers -- Halfway -- 5 Culture -- 6 History -- 7 Landscapes -- 8 Consumption -- 9 Politics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Places -- Index of Names; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004293335
ER  -