Images of the educational traveller in early modern England / / by Sara Warneke.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 58
• VerfasserIn: Warneke, Sara,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [The Netherlands] ;, New York ;, Köln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 1995.; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 58.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Traditions Of Travel Before 1570: Pilgrims, Students And Gentlemen -- Chapter Two: Educational Travel: The Enthusiasm, The Scholemaster, And The Reaction -- Chapter Three: Educational Travellers: Adolescents And Apes -- Chapter Four: The Devil Incarnate: The Italianated Traveller -- Chapter Five: 'A Monster Covered With Man's Shape': The Atheist Traveller -- Chapter Six: A Poisoned And Evil Subject: The Catholic Traveller -- Chapter Seven: A Dissolute And Wanton Youth: The Morally Corrupt Traveller -- Chapter Eight: The Cultural Renegade -- Chapter Nine: The Sport Of Comedies: The Fool And The Liar -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Remembrances for Mr Willm. -- Appendix B: Memorial of instructions by William Cecil to the Earl of Rutland -- Primary Bibliography -- Select Secondary Bibliography -- Index.