Blair Worden

What Englishmen learnt from Europe

The Jacobean Grand Tour is packed with sumptuous detail about a time when Stuarts sent their sons to the Continent for a well-rounded education

The great Ascension Day pageant of the Doge performing the marriage of the sea — already a tourist attraction in 17th-century Venice. [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 01 February 2014

  • The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart Travellers in Europe

    Edward Chaney and Timothy Wilks

    I.B. Tauris, pp. 304

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