Launch of ‘Ars Apodemia Online Database: The Art of Travel 1500 – 1800’

You are cordially invited to the Launch of the Apodemica Online Database: The Art of Travel 1500-1800 by Prof. Sean Ryder (English/Moore Institute)

On Monday November 7, 5.30pm, Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building G010

This electronic resource provides extensive bibliographical and biographical records on hundreds of contributions to the advice literature on travel that flourished across Europe in the early modern period through the eighteenth century. Advice on moral conduct, the risks and benefits of travel, lessons in ‘policy’, language acquisition and sociability predominated in this widely circulated form (in orations, disputations, letters, and treatises). Among the most famous works were those of Francis Bacon, Sir Philip Sidney, Justus Lipsius, and John Evelyn.

The database was created by Prof. Dan Carey, with Prof. Jane Conroy, Dr. Gabor Gelleri, Dr. Anders Ingram, David Kelly and Niall O’Leary, with support from the Mellon Foundation and the HEA (PRTLI).

The event coincides with an international conference on The Art of Travel 1500-1800: Invention, Tradition, Innovation (November 7-8, Moore Institute).

For the programme see here.

Refreshments served!