traveller who travels for scenery.


BIBLIOGRAPHY


INDEX

FOOTNOTES

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CHAPTER I

THE BEGINNINGS OF TRAVEL FOR CULTURE


Of the many social impulses that were influenced by the Renaissance, by
that "new lernynge which runnythe all the world over now-a-days," the
love of travel received a notable modification. This very old instinct
to go far, far away had in the Middle Ages found sanction, dignity and
justification in the performance of pilgrimages. It is open to doubt
whether the number of the truly pious would ever have filled so many
ships to Port Jaffa had not their ranks been swelled by the restless,
the adventurous, the wanderers of all classes.

Towards the sixteenth century, when curiosity about things human was an