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Peiresc’s Mediterranean World
Engelsk Paperback
Peiresc’s Mediterranean World
Engelsk Paperback

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Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was a “prince” of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc’s study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exotic. Mining the remarkable 70,000-page archive of this Provençal humanist and polymath, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century that was dominated by the sea: the ceaseless activity of merchants, customs officials, and ships’ captains at the center of Europe’s sprawling maritime networks. Peiresc’s Mediterranean World reconstructs the web of connections that linked the bustling port city of Marseille to destinations throughout the Western Mediterranean, North Africa, the Levant, and beyond. “Peter Miller’s reanimation of Peiresc, the master of the Mediterranean, is the best kind of case study. It not only makes us appreciate the range and richness of one man’s experience and the originality of his thought, but also suggests that he had many colleagues in his deepest and most imaginative inquiries. Most important, it gives us hope that their archives too will be opened up by scholars skillful and imaginative enough to make them speak to us.”—Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
640
ISBN-13:
9780674979710
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0674979710
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Udg. Dato:
30 okt 2017
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
226mm
Højde:
154mm
Forlag:
Harvard University Press
Oplagsdato:
30 okt 2017
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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