Complete Gentlemen : Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750 (British Academy Monographs)

Ansell, Richard

Oxford University Press（2022/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 306 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780197267271
• DDC分類 914.04232

Full Description

Complete Gentlemen is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Ansell reconstructs dozens of encounters with continental Europe, revealing how the varying means, ambitions, and obligations of families produced widely differing experiences of educational travel. Where historians usually isolate time abroad, he pays unprecedented attention to what families thought and did before, after, and instead of foreign travel, stages that uncover its true significance for British and Irish society. This innovative approach requires a deep source base over several generations, provided by the manuscript archives of four clusters of families from England and Ireland. Ansell uses these archives to relate travel, too often a stand-alone topic, to broader questions in social and cultural history, exploring the meanings of time abroad for social mobility, elite formation, landed identity, masculinity, and Englishness.

Contents

Introduction

1: Before Travel

2: Finances, Social Standing and the 'Grand Tour'

3: Learning Abroad

4: Networking Abroad

5: Returns from Travel

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index