Angielskie i polskie miasta we wspomnieniach siedemnastowiecznych peregrynatnów z obu krajów

This article is devoted to particular aspects of 17th-century travel writing. It analyzes selected works of english travellers visiting Poland and, conversely, Poles describing their tours of Britain. By combining specific extracts of these memoirs, focusing mainly on the descriptions of towns and cities visited by the correspondents, the author of the article discusses the differences and similarities in selected points of  description (e.g. the fortifications of  a particular town), indicating the influences of  the diarists’ cultural backgrounds, the functioning stereotypes of the period, the contemporary political and religious climate, the purpose and length of their visits and other factors that affected the individual writer’s perspective.