“The Italian, German or Dutch traveller could get by, however, without learning any difficult expressions in the local language, because he might well have found hospitality with one of his own countrymen, who took in guests in addition to pursuing their business interests… …the host might even be an English or Scottish burgher, or a polyglot Armenian.“ Antoni Mączak (1928-2003) was not a specialist on the Scots in Poland. However, he was a great, prolific and wide-ranging historian who, in this section above, managed to encapsulate something of the multicultural setting experienced by visitors to the early modern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The quote is taken from his best-known book in the English-speaking world, Życie codzienne w podróżach po Europie XVI–XVII wieku, originally published in 1980 and translated later by Ursula Phillips as “Travel in Early Modern Europe”. Antoni Mączak, Travel in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 1995), p. 29.
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