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Peiresc's Mediterranean World by Peter N. Miller (2015, Hardcover)

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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--travel times and insurance premiums, rare manuscripts and objects from the Orient. 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. As Miller also makes clear, Peiresc's mastery of practical details and his collaboration with local traders and fixers as well as scholars shed new light on the structure of knowledge-making in the age of Bacon, Galileo, and Rubens. Miller shows that Peiresc's pursuit of Oriental studies, for example, depended crucially on his abilities as a man of action. Exploring the historian's craft today against the backdrop of Peiresc's diverse research activities, Peiresc's Mediterranean World suggests new possibilities for scholarship on the past, but also for the relationship between the writing of history and its readers.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674744063
ISBN-13
9780674744066
eBay Product ID (ePID)
205709510

Product Key Features

Book Title
Peiresc's Mediterranean World
Author
Peter N. Miller
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Historiography, Europe / France, International Relations / General, Movements / Humanism, Europe / General, Modern / 17th Century
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
640 Pages

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Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Item Weight
37 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
D973
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Much of Peiresc's originality as a thinker about past and present emerges only when the minutiae of his practices go under the scholar's microscope. Miller is as tireless as Peiresc in his attention to them... The hero of Peiresc's Mediterranean World was an intellectual omnivore who discovered new worlds wherever he looked... Peiresc's Mediterranean World is written...in energetic, eloquent prose... Miller uses an experimental form of exposition to make his readers see with new eyes. He does not tell a single story, but moves to the tune of two steps forward, one step back, at times following chronological order, at times following thematic order... Miller's greatest achievement--and it is remarkable--is to portray Peiresc as a figure in a period landscape: someone who shared skills and interests with contemporaries... 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., An amazingly learned work, and strikingly imaginative. Miller provides a brilliant conspectus of the Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century filtered through Peiresc'e(tm)s eyes and his unbelievable archive., Much of Peiresc's originality as a thinker about past and present emerges only when the minutiae of his practices go under the scholar's microscope. Miller is as tireless as Peiresc in his attention to them... The hero of Peiresc's Mediterranean World was an intellectual omnivore who discovered new worlds wherever he looked... Peiresc's Mediterranean World is written...in energetic, eloquent prose... Miller uses an experimental form of exposition to make his readers see with new eyes. He does not tell a single story, but moves to the tune of two steps forward, one step back, at times following chronological order, at times following thematic order... Miller's greatest achievement-and it is remarkable-is to portray Peiresc as a figure in a period landscape: someone who shared skills and interests with contemporaries... 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., Peter N. Miller 'e(tm)s magical book conjures a lost world back into being: a human world stretched across an ocean. This is an immensely distinguished work'e"one that justly seeks comparison with that of the mighty dead explorers of the same ocean, Braudel and Goitein., Miller is a pertinacious and meticulous scholar... The book is a rewarding quarry for picturesque details., Peter N. Miller's magical book conjures a lost world back into being: a human world stretched across an ocean. This is an immensely distinguished work--one that justly seeks comparison with that of the mighty dead explorers of the same ocean, Braudel and Goitein.
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2014-042004
Dewey Decimal
909.09/8220507202
Dewey Edition
23

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