On The Navigating Travel Of Western Citizen In The Transitional Period From Medieval To Modern

Currently, there appears not much specialized researching works on the western citizen's exploring travel in the transitional period from Mediaeval to Modern. This treatise chooses this topic as the master's paper focused on analyzing the western citizen's exploring travel, which lay emphasis on the reason, characteristics and the influence of the western citizen's exploring travel. The treatise is mainly divided into three parts in addition to the foreword and concluding remarks.The first part of the treatise is the reason of western citizen's exploring travel. The western citizen's exploring travel did not happened accidentally but necessarily. Firstly, the western citizen inherited the exploring travel tradition of Greek and Roman, and then the gene of this tradition was developed thoroughly. In addition to this reason, the condition of skills and politics was ready for western citizens to travel far from the sea. Meanwhile, the reason to travel was mixed with religious intension and personal purpose, which cannot be neglected when we research the western citizen's exploring travel.The second part of the treatise is mainly focused on the national traveling characteristics and features which individualized western citizen in transitional period. The western citizen expressed their common aesthetic view as well as special characteristics of their own although their purpose...