While educational travel was extremely popular among early modern Englishmen, the practice attracted extensive public criticism. Rather than examining travel itself, this book explores the vivid public images of educational travellers, their development and popularity, and the fears and prejudices in English society that engendered them. The first part of the book examines the medieval background of English travel abroad, the enthusiasm for educational travel among early modern Englishmen, and the progress of the public debate over the practice which essentially started with the publication of Ascham's 'The Scholemaster' in 1570. The second part of the book examines each of the seven major images of the educational traveller: the Italianated traveller; the atheistical traveller, the Catholic traveller, the morally corrupt traveller, the culturally corrupt traveller, and the foolish and lying travellers.
Author(s): Sara Warneke
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 58
Publisher: E. J. Brill
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 340
City: Leiden
Acknowledgments ix
Conventions xi
Introduction 1
PART ONE. THE BACKGROUND
I. Pilgrims, Students and Gentlemen: Traditions of Travel Before 1570 17
II. Educational Travel: The Enthusiasm, The Scholemaster, & the Reaction 41
III. Educational Travellers: Adolescents and Apes 74
PART TWO. IMAGES OF THE EDUCATIONAL TRAVELLER IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
IV. The Devil Incarnate: The Italianated Traveller 105
V. 'A Monster Covered with Man's Shape': The Atheist Traveller 138
VI. A Poisoned and Evil Subject: The Catholic Traveller 160
VII. A Dissolute and Wanton Youth: The Morally Corrupt Traveller 191
VIII. The Cultural Renegade 217
IX. The Sport of Comedies: The Fool and the Liar 249
Conclusion 277
Appendix A 293
Appendix Β 295
Primary Bibliography 299
Secondary Bibliography 309
Index 314
