Vatican ceremonies and tourist culture in nineteenth-century British travelogues
(2010)
Book Chapter
Martens, B. (2010). Vatican ceremonies and tourist culture in nineteenth-century British travelogues. In M. Hollington, C. Waters, & J. Jordan (Eds.), Imagining Italy: Victorian Writers and Travellers (14-34). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press
Nineteenth-century British tourists who attended Catholic ceremonies in Italy were more than mere passive observers. Their accounts of Holy Week in the Vatican reveal a tension between, on the one hand, British tourists’ denigration of Catholic ritua... Read More about Vatican ceremonies and tourist culture in nineteenth-century British travelogues.