1st Edition
Peiresc's Orient Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century
By Peter N. Miller
Copyright 2012
372 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
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The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc's study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this described the eastern and southern space in which the Greeks and Romans lived and strove. For Peiresc the... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Peiresc and history; Comparison: The antiquary's art of comparison: Peiresc and Abraxas; Paganism: Taking Paganism seriously: anthropology and antiquarianism in early 17th-century histories of religion; Arabic: Peiresc and the study of Islamic coins in the early 17th century; Samaritan I: An antiquary between philology and history: Peiresc and the Samaritans; Samaritan II: A philologist, a traveller and an antiquary rediscover the Samaritans in 17th-century Paris, Rome and Aix: Jean Morin, Pietro della Valle and N.-C. Fabri de Peiresc; Hebrew: The mechanics of Christian-Jewish intellectual collaboration in 17th-century Provence: N.-C. Fabri de Peiresc and Saloman Azubi; Coptic: Copts and scholars: Athanasius Kircher in Peiresc's republic of letters; North Africa: Peiresc in Africa: arm-chair anthropology in the early 17th century; West Africa: History of religion becomes ethnology: some evidence from Peiresc's Africa; East Africa: Peiresc's Ethiopia: how? And why?; Conclusion: Oriental studies and orientalism; Index.
Biography
Peter N. Miller is Dean and Professor of Cultural History, Bard Graduate Center, New York, USA.
'Miller has served Peiresc well ...' Renaissance Quarterly 'Miller analyzes with great sensitivity evidence from his extensive correspondence and study-notes to reveal the antiquarian's habits of mind and scholarly practices.' Journal of Early Modern History
