The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

by Brennan,Michael G.

• ISBN13: 9780904180855
• ISBN10: 0904180859
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century figures such as John Evelyn), this study reassesses the early origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the 'Grand Tour'.Usually denoted primarily as a post-Restoration and eighteenth-century activity, the basis of the long term English fascination with the 'Grand Tour' was firmly rooted in the mid-Tudor and early-Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy, the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism, and the expediencies of political or religious exile. The outbreak of the English Civil War during the late-1640s acted as a powerful stimulus to this kind of travel for male members of both royalist and parliamentarian families, as a means of distancing them from the social upheavals back home as well as broadening their intellectual horizons.The extensive editorial introductions to this publication of the experiences of three young Englishmen also consider how their travel records have survived in a variety of literary forms, including personal diaries (Montagu), family letters (Hammond) and formal prose records (Maynard's travels were written up by his servant, Robert Moody), and how these texts should now be interpreted not in isolation but alongside the diverse collections of prints, engravings, curiosities, coins and antiquities assembled by such travellers.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Abbreviations, Conventions and Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction: Robert Montagu, William Hammond, and Banaster Maynard	1	(8)
SECTION ONE: English Travellers and the Origins of the Grand Tour
The Mid-Tudor Origins of the Grand Tour	9	(4)
Elizabethan Educational Travellers on the Continent	13	(6)
The Expansion of Western European Travel from 1603 until 1625	19	(11)
From Education to Exile: Continental Travel from 1625 until 1660	30	(7)
English Civil War Travellers as Diarists and Collectors	37	(10)
The Engravings of Israel Silvestre and Israel Henriet	47	(10)
EDITED TEXTS
SECTION TWO: The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville (May 1649--April 1654)
The Family and Early Life of Robert Montagu	57	(1)
The Montagus, Earls of Manchester	58	(2)
Robert Montagu's Continental Travels	60	(9)
The Later Life of Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester	69	(4)
The Other Montagus	73	(4)
The Manuscript of Robert Montagu's Travels	77	(70)
Edited Text: The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville (May 1649--April 1654)	80	(67)
SECTION THREE: The Travels of William Hammond (December 1655--May 1658)
The Family and Early Life of William Hammond	147	(2)
The Hammonds and the Stanleys	149	(4)
William Hammond's Continental Travels	153	(2)
William Hammond's Later Life and the Other Hammonds	155	(3)
The Manuscripts of William Hammond's Letters	158	(69)
Edited Text: The Travels of William Hammond (December 1655--May 1658)	161	(66)
SECTION FOUR: The Travels of the Honourable Banaster Maynard (Spring 1660--April 1663)
The Family and Early Life of Banaster Maynard	227	(1)
Banaster Maynard's Continental Travels	228	(4)
The Later Life of Banaster Maynard, 3rd Lord Maynard	232	(2)
The Other Maynards	234	(1)
The Manuscript of Banaster Maynard's Travels	235	(68)
Edited Text: The Travels of the Honourable Banaster Maynard (Spring 1660--April 1663)	239	(64)
Bibliography	303	(10)
Index	313