Na cestě po Evropě : Alžbětinští cestovatelé v Čechách v sedmdesátých a osmdesátých letech 16. století

• Authors: Hana Ferencová

Title variants

EN

On the road through Europe : Elizabethan travellers in Bohemia in the 1570s and 1580s

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article addresses Elizabethan travellers who visited Bohemia during the 1570s and 1580s. In the majority of cases, the visit to Bohemia, which mostly served as a transit destination, was limited to Prague which, as the capital, had the greatest cultural-political significance in the area. The core of the study is an analysis of surviving travel journals and correspondence from these first study and excursion tours undertaken by young Englishmen, the so called Grand Tours. Among the travellers who visited the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia during their grand tour were: Philip Sidney (1554-86), Robert Sidney (1563-1626), Arthur Throckmorton (ca. 1557- 1626), George Carew (ca. 1556-1612) and Stephen Powle (ca. 1553-1630). Their personal observations, their perception of the situation in the Central Europe during the examined period, as well as the itinerary of the Grand Tour itself constitute the main subject of interest of this study.

Keywords

CS

cestopisy; cestovatelé; dějiny cestování

EN

books on travels; travellers; history of travelling; Grand Tour; Czech-English relations; 16th century books of travels; history of travelling

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Folia historica Bohemica
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 169-188
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hana Ferencová

• Folia historica Bohemica, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic