A history of curiosity: the theory of travel 1550-1800

Abstract

The methodizing of travel in the 16th century - a tale of three cities rerum memoria - early modern enquiries and documentation centres imagines mundi - allegories of the continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment the man who called himself George Psalmanaazar or the problems of the authenticity of ethnographic description Josephinism and social research - the patriotic of Count Leopold Berchtold August Ludwig Schlozer and the study of mankind according to peoples from the autonomous to the heteronomous traveller - Volney's reform of travel instruction and the French Revolution.