Early Modern Grand Tourer in Poland-Lithuania
Fiction or Real Possibility?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12797/SH.61.2018.04.01Keywords:
grand tour, travel literature, early modern Poland -LithuaniaAbstract
In the last fifty or so years, Grand Tour has become a very popular and extensively researched phenomenon. Although mainstream researchers have analyzed various aspects of the Grand Tour, they have tended to adopt a narrow definition limited to the experiences of young English gentlemen undertaking a study tour of Italy and France. This article poses a somewhat provocative question: was the Grand Tour feasible as a study tour of an English gentleman visiting Poland- Lithuania? Based on contemporary travel writing, the author reveals the challenges and the difficult logistics of such an undertaking.
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