Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Pedestrian Tour in Europe
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Evolution of the Grand Tour
Author: Edward ChaneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317973666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production. Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy Englishmen would complete their education on the continent, the Grand Tour is here investigated in a wider context, from the decline of the Roman Empire to recent times. Authors from Chaucer to Erasmus came to mock the custom but even the Reformation did not stop the urge to travel. From the mid-sixteenth century, northern Europeans justified travel to the south in terms of education. The English had previously travelled to Italy to study the classics; now they travelled to learn Italian and study medicine, diplomacy, dancing, riding, fencing, and, eventually, art and architecture. Famous men, and an increasing proportion of women, all contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate European culture. Documenting the lives and travels of these personalities, Professor Chaney's remarkable book provides a complete picture of one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of western civilisation.
The World's Great Masterpieces
Author: Harry Thurston PeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthologies
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Bayard Taylor's Travels: Views a-foot, or, Europe seen with knapsack and staff
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The World's Great Masterpieces
Author: Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi
Author: Robert Lawrence FrancePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527559254
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Undertaking a peripatetic pilgrimage that is equal parts a daily description of a 200-kilometre walk from the wounded mountain of La Verna to the tortured river in Assisi, and an examination of the debt owed to Italy in terms of ecocultural and environmental scholarship, this book provides an innovative addition to the nascent field of ecocritical narrative scholarship. Through a process that has been referred to as “deep-travel“ or “mind-walking,” the text fulsomely reviews how time spent in Italy influenced the writings of notable North American environmental historians, geographers, scientists, nature writers, landscape architects, and restoration theorists about the conception and manipulation of the natural world. This literary field study highlights how the phenomenological co-traversing of texts and trails can be a valued methodology for undertaking environmental criticism.
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Author: Bayard TaylorViews A-foot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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