Touring in 1600: A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of EducationBates, E. S. (Ernest Stuart)
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Touring in 1600: A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education
Bates, E. S. (Ernest Stuart)
Europe -- Description and travel; Europe -- Social life and customs; Travel -- History
=Turks=; relation to European States, 8, 182-9, 197, 204;
Christians' fear of, 22, 85, 113, 117-8, 188;
conversions by, 55-6, 356;
learn navigation from renegades, 73;
Danube mainly a Turkish river, 81;
increase of their sea-power during this period, 106, 184-6;
as seen by tourists, 90, 189-91, 200-2, 269, 343, 346, 360;
their teetotalism, 93, 190, 192;
likeness to the Japanese as contrasted with Christians, 191, 321;
signs of decay, 192;
other characteristics, 90, 189-91, 200-2, 269, 343, 346, 360;
"Khans," 247-50;
coinage used by, 369, 372.
=—— their ruler=, the Grand Signor; Dallam and, 9;
as an employer, 55;
supposed to possess a complete Livy, 194;
diversions of, 196;
how to see his palace, 196-7;
audiences with, 197.
=—— Bibl.=; _see_ Constantinople and Jerusalem.
=Tutors=; 37, 180, 316;
Hentzner as, 43-4;
qualifications, 53;
Ben Jonson as, 56.
=Ulm=; 120.
=Unicorn horns=; fact, fiction, and prices, 149, 150.
=United Provinces=; 116-7, 348;
communications in, 83, 291, 294, 329.
=—— people of=; 132, 143.
=—— Bibl.=; Beatis, Bisoni, Brereton, Buchell, Cust, Hagemans, Hoby,
Moryson.
=Universities= (_see_ Bologna, Padua, Saumur, Students, Wittenberg);
Alcalá and Salamanca, 48;
Italian ones idealized, 103;
Orleans, 115.
=Vagabond=; _see_ "Picaro."
=Valois=, Marguerite de; 152;
her litter, 290.
=Vargas=, Juan de; 405.
=Venice=; 4, 136, 149, 153, 291, 329, 341, 360-2;
more English there than in the rest of Italy, 28;
as a model State, 100-1;
attractions of, 103-6;
small boys of, 133;
inns of, 252, 274, 276-7.
=Verona=; 113.
"=Vetturino=-system"; what it was, 331;
its rise and services, 332-4.
=Vienna=; 121, 147, 188, 288, 395.
=Villamont=, Sieur de; quoted, 65, 87, 104, 143, 302, 329, 382.
=Villers=, MM. de; 365, 383, 395.
=Villingen=, Pastor Peter, pilgrim to Jerusalem, 1565;
enslaved, 359.
=Vinci=, Leonardo da; a conversation with, 396.
=Volcanoes=; 91.
=Waller=, Edmund; 80.
=War=; (_see_ Robbers); decreases use of Latin, 47;
even distribution of war and peace in this period, 124, 350;
as affecting tourist finance, 348, 364.
=Weston=, Sir Richard; learns much from the Dutch, 116.
=Whetenal=, Lady Catherine; 394.
=Willes=, Dr.; cost of journey, England, Muscovy, 335.
=Wilson=, Arthur; 63.
=Winghe=, J. de (of Tournai); 395.
=Wittenberg=; 121.
=Women= and Travel; (_see_ Cecilia, Clara Eugenia, Fanshawe, Johanna,
Whetenal);
at Rome in 1600, 18;
advice concerning, 59;
in a seven-day Channel-passage, 63;
position of, in Italy and United Provinces, contrasted, 142-4;
Jerusalem "Placets" not granted to, 210;
embarrassments of, when abroad, 269-71;
of Chios, 88-9;
Russian, 161;
Spanish, 170;
Irish, 177-8;
Turkish, 200.
=Wotton=, Sir Henry; quoted, 26, 71, 154, 299, 329, 341, 347, 349, 356,
405.
=Wunderer=, Johann David; at Pskov, 162.
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