Article ID: CBB494720954

Rhetoric, the Pox, and the Grand Tour (2021)

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In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, the Grand Tour, sex, and venereal disease became almost indivisible in the public imagination. The Grand Tour was an essential element of a well-born man's education. Yet a persistent belief developed that continental travel was infecting the youth of England with debilitating disease, and that they were bringing disease home to harm the nation. The belief sprang from medical ignorance and xenophobia, but also from the usefulness of associating pox with the Grand Tour, a rhetorical move that helped to palliate domestic medical problems, enrich sectors of the British economy, and lay groundwork for changes in the control of political power—and that has persisted into our own era's conception of the Grand Tour.

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Authors & Contributors
Carlo Gelmetti
Siena, Kevin P.
Healy, Margaret
Buchanan, Ashley Lynn
Pittalis, Edoardo
Benadusi, Giovanna
Concepts
Medicine and politics
Medicine
Sexually transmitted diseases
Disease and diseases
Medicine and society
Physicians; doctors
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
England
Italy
London (England)
Great Britain
Netherlands
Belgium
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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