Thomas Coryat (also Coryate) (c. 1577 – 1617) was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered for two volumes of writings he left regarding his travels, often on foot, through Europe and parts of Asia. He is often credited with introducing the table fork to England, with "Furcifer" (Latin: fork-bearer, rascal) becoming one of his nicknames.[1] His description of how the Italians shielded themselves from the sun resulted in the word "umbrella" being introduced into English.[1]
^ abMichael Strachan, "Coryate, Thomas (c. 1577–1617)", in Literature of Travel and Exploration: an Encyclopedia, 2003, Volume 1, pp.285–87
ThomasCoryat (also Coryate) (c. 1577 – 1617) was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered...
northern Europe was slower. Its use was first described in English by ThomasCoryat in a volume of writings on his Italian travels (1611), but for many...
she was held in high regard by her son Akbar, as English traveler ThomasCoryat recorded, Akbar carrying her palanquin himself across the river, during...
rather than the three of Viollet-le-Duc. The English travel writer ThomasCoryat saw it at about the same time and described it as "the fairest gallows...
precedence above all the noble Libraries I saw in my travels. — ThomasCoryat, Coryat's Crudities In 1680, the Senate accepted the recommendation of the...
among them Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, ThomasCoryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, and...
rediscovered. One was noticed in the 16th century by the English traveller ThomasCoryat in the ruins of Old Delhi. Initially he assumed that from the way it...
John Davies, poet Thomas James, librarian ThomasCoryat, travel writer, court jester to James I Henry Marten, Judge of Admiralty Thomas Ryves, lawyer Richard...
Italy in the 16th century, and was described for his English readers by ThomasCoryat in the 1590s as "not used in any other country that I saw in my travels"...
Women's County league. There are also 2 Lawn Bowls clubs in the town. ThomasCoryat a traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age...
are held at these four sites in rotation, to commemorate the event. ThomasCoryat, an English traveller, who visited the city in the reign of Emperor...
die door Kolombus.. Leiden, 1705 Van der Aa, Pieter – Reys togt door ThomasCoryat van Jerusalem; Leiden, 1705 Van der Aa, Pieter – De zee en land-reysen...
the basis of the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia; and ThomasCoryat. The latter, the author of "Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels...
death, his ashes are also said to have been immersed at Brahma Kund. ThomasCoryat, an English traveller, who visited the city in the reign of Emperor...
musical activity survives in the travel memoirs of the English writer ThomasCoryat. Much of his music was written specifically for that location, although...
(1609), John Taylor, the Water Poet (title-page to his poems, 1630), ThomasCoryat, and many others. He also engraved the frontispiece to John Harington's...
attested in the writings of Benzo d'Alessandria, Giovanni Simonetta, ThomasCoryat, Bernardino Corio and Andrea Alciato. In the 17th century Gabriele Verri...
other valuable items twice every year. English visitors such as ThomasCoryat and Thomas Roe mention that the custom was followed by his son Jahangir as...
by Englishmen and others (4 vols.), (1625). ThomasCoryat, (c. 1577–1617), English traveller Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels...
distinguished visitors. An English visitor to Venice, ThomasCoryat, left this description of his singing (Coryats Crudities, London, 1611): "Of the singers there...
precedents set by Thomas Howard when he travelled to Italy in 1613. The travelogue Coryat's Crudities (1611), published by ThomasCoryat was also an early...
Barnabe Rich, English soldier and story-teller (born c. 1540) December – ThomasCoryat, English travel writer (born c. 1577) Unknown dates Giovanni Botero...
visited the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. In Britain, ThomasCoryat's travel book Coryat's Crudities (1611), published during the Twelve Years' Truce...
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