Europe within Reach

Publication type: 
Book
Author(s): 
Gerrit VERHOEVEN
Citation: 

Verhoeven, G. (2015) Europe within Reach. BRILL Publishers, Leiden.

Description: 

Netherlandish Travellers on the Grand Tour and Beyond (1585-1750).   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.

Year of publication : 
2015
Publisher: 
BRILL Publishers, Leiden
Reference number: 
ISBN:  9789004292710