The book is a comprehensive study of British travel in the United Provinces during the Stuart Period and largely based on journals and correspondence never before published. After a discussion of travel journals and correspondence as a literary genre with conventions of its own, the book focuses on the more concrete activities of the tourist: transport, accommodation and sightseeing. A large number of guidebooks provided the necessary information and helped the tourist to write his observations on Holland and the Dutch. Letters by Edward Browne (1644-1708), passages from the journal of John Locke (1632-1704) and the financial accounts of the third Earl of Orrery (1670-1703) take the reader through most of the provinces and give a first-hand impression of what travel was like for various categories of tourists in those days. This book is indispensable for all scholars of Anglo-Dutch relations in this period who are interested in learning about day to day experiences of Britons visiting Holland.
Author(s): Cornelis Daniël van Strien
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 42
Publisher: E. J. Brill
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 472
City: Leiden
PREFACE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TRAVEL ACCOUNTS
INTRODUCTION
PRIVATE DIARIES AND OTHER PERSONAL NOTES
MEMOIRS
CORRESPONDENCE
TRAVEL JOURNALS
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER II. THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE UNITED PROVINCES
THE CROSSING TO HOLLAND
VARIOUS ROUTES THROUGH THE UNITED PROVINCES
TRANSPORT IN HOLLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
ACCOMMODATION
CONTACTS AND LANGUAGE
MONEY MATTERS
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER III. SIGHTSEEING
GENERAL REMARKS ON THE TOWNS
VISITING THE PRINCIPAL SIGHTS
LEISURE TIME
TOURING THE COUNTRYSIDE
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER IV. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS MADE BY TRAVELLERS
INTRODUCTION
HISTORY
GOVERNMENT
RICHES, TRADE AND CHARITY
THE STATE OF LEARNING
RELIGION
THE DUTCH PEOPLE AND THEIR CUSTOMS
CONCLUSION
GENERAL CONCLUSION
APPENDIX I. EDWARD BROWNE'S JOURNEY OF 1668
APPENDIX II. JOHN LOCKE'S JOURNEY OF 1684
APPENDIX III.
ORRERY ACCOUNTS 1686-9
APPENDIX IV. LIST OF INNS
APPENDIX V. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF TRAVELLERS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ILLUSTRATIONS I-XIV
