Abroad or Still "At Home"? Young Noblemen from the Czech Lands and the Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
2017
Abstrakt
The first part of this chapter describes the phenomenon of the Grand Tour as it has hitherto been understood by Czech, Austrian or German historiography - as a journey undertaken by central European aristocrats for the sake of knowledge in order to comlete their education. In the second part, the itineraries and thze programme of a typical Grand Tour taken in the second half of the seventeenth century will be analysed on the basis of a sample of twenty tours.
The shift towards a more northern focus in the itineraries ofthe Central European Grand Tour after 1700 will be analysed in the third and closing section.