The Jacobites and the Grand Tour : educational travel and small states' diplomacy / Jérémy Filet

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Filet, Jérémy, author.

Series:

Jacobite Studies Trust (Series)

Jacobite Studies Trust

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jacobites--Travel--History--18th century.

Jacobites.

Jacobites--Travel--Political aspects--History--18th century.

Jacobites--History--18th century.

Grand tours (Education)--History--18th century.

Grand tours (Education).

Grand tours (Education)--Political aspects--History--18th century.

Diplomacy--History--18th century.

Diplomacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025

Summary:

"In the first monograph to fully examine the intersecting networks of Jacobites and travellers to the continent, Filet considers how small states used official diplomacy and deployed soft power - embodied by educational academies - to achieve foreign policy goals. This work uses little-known archival materials to explain how and why certain small states secretly supported the Jacobite cause during the crucial years surrounding the 1715 rising, while others stayed out of Jacobite affairs.At the same time, the book demonstrates how early modern small states sought to cultivate good relations with Britain by attracting travellers as part of a wider trend of ensuring connections with future diplomats or politicians in case a Stuart restoration never came. This publication therefore brings together a study of Britain, small states, Jacobitism, and educational travel, in its nexus at continental academies"-- JSTOR

Contents:

A unique position: the Duchy of Lorraine and its academy

The Jacobite diaspora, from great powers to small states

The Jacobites and small states’ educational institutions

The Earl of Carlingford: champion of the Jacobite diaspora

Misinformed? small states’ envoy at Queen Anne’s court

The Jacobite court in exile and Lorraine’s support for the Fifteen

A misleading corpus? Jacobite travellers on the continent

The failure of the Fifteen and the decline of the Jacobite presence

The Jacobite absence in travel texts: rhetorical distance or political omission?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 9, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Filet, Jérémy Jacobites and the Grand Tour

ISBN:

9781526179937

1526179938

9781526179913

1526179911

OCLC:

1527530543

Publisher Number:

CIPO000212185

CIPO000212184