Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Travel Culture, 1550-1700.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Travel Culture, 1550-1700 -- Part 1 Manuals and Theoretical Reflections on the Art of Travelling -- Chapter 1 Ars apodemica and Socio-Cultural Research -- Chapter 2 Loysius's Pervigilium Mercurii and Other Early Latin Artes Apodemicae: the Constitution of a Genre through Intertextuality -- Chapter 3 Lorenz Gryll (d. 1560): a Traveller in the Service of Medical Training -- Chapter 4 Justus Lipsius on Travelling to Italy: From a Humanist Letter-Essay to an Oration and a Political Guidebook -- Chapter 5 Debating the Use of Academic Travel: Early Modern Disputations De arte peregrinandi -- Chapter 6 Handbooks for the Courtier and Handbooks for the Traveller: Intersections of Two Forms of Early Modern Advice Literature -- Chapter 7 Through Canada with Linnaeus: the Swedish-Finnish Traveller to America Pehr Kalm and His Use of the Ars apodemica of Carl Linnaeus -- Part 2 Early Modern Traveller's Guides -- Chapter 8 Joint Adventures: Company and Companions in Seventeenth-Century English Travelling Culture -- Chapter 9 The Rise of a Proto-Tourist Infrastructure in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome and Naples -- Chapter 10 Reading instead of Travelling: Nathan Chytraeus's Variorum in Europa itinerum deliciae -- Chapter 11 Thomas Hobbes' Journey Poem De mirabilibus Pecci (1627): a Travel Guide for Early English Domestic Tourism -- Part 3 The Art of Travelling to the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter 12 Classical Tradition and Contemporary Experience in Hugo Favolius's Hodoeporicon Byzantinum (1563) -- Chapter 13 Habits and Habillement in Seventeenth-Century Voyages: Georges de La Chappelle's Recueil des divers portraits des principals dames de la Porte du Grand Turc -- Index Nominum.

An exploration of the early modern manuals on travelling (Artes apodemicae), which originated in the sixteenth century, when it became communis opinio among intellectuals that an extended tour abroad was an indispensable part of humanist, academic and political education.

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