The Resource Peiresc's Mediterranean world, Peter N. Miller
Peiresc's Mediterranean world, Peter N. Miller
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- Summary
- "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, sheds 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"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 630 pages
- Contents
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- Algiers, June 1932
- Marseille-Aix
- Marseille and the French Mediterranean
- Peiresc's letters
- Contingency
- Writing to the Levant 1627-1637
- Peiresc's names, or, On reading the namescape
- The problem of detail
- The postal link
- The last mile (Mule is king)
- Marseille's merchants
- Marseille merchant families
- Financing, disbursing, reimbursing
- Sanson Napollon
- Naturalizing merchants
- North Africans in Marseille
- Northerners in the Mediterranean
- Ships' captains and patrons
- Tasks entrusted to captains
- Port practices : packaging-plague-quarantine
- Setting sail
- Merchant routes
- Mapping the Mediterranean
- Sicily
- People in motion
- Ottoman Empire news
- Time and timings
- Corsairs
- Ransoming
- End points
- Merchants as intellectual partners
- Before Statistik
- Peiresc's mixing in Cairo's consular politics
- Peiresc and travel
- Where Mediterranean meets Orient : Ethiopia, India, Yemen
- At the still point
- Appendices
- Isbn
- 9780674744066
- Label
- Peiresc's Mediterranean world
- Title
- Peiresc's Mediterranean world
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter N. Miller
- Subject
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- Humanists -- France -- Archives
- Intellectuals -- France -- Archives
- Marseille (France) -- Relations -- Mediterranean Region -- Sources
- Mediterranean Region -- Commerce | History -- 17th century -- Sources
- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 17th century -- Sources
- France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century -- Sources
- Mediterranean Region -- Relations -- France | Marseille -- Sources
- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, 1580-1637 -- Archives
- Mediterranean Region -- History, Naval -- 17th century -- Sources
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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, sheds 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"--Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Miller, Peter N.
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de
- Intellectuals
- Humanists
- Mediterranean Region
- Mediterranean Region
- Mediterranean Region
- Marseille (France)
- Mediterranean Region
- France
- Label
- Peiresc's Mediterranean world, Peter N. Miller
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Algiers, June 1932 -- Marseille-Aix -- Marseille and the French Mediterranean -- Peiresc's letters -- Contingency -- Writing to the Levant 1627-1637 -- Peiresc's names, or, On reading the namescape -- The problem of detail -- The postal link -- The last mile (Mule is king) -- Marseille's merchants -- Marseille merchant families -- Financing, disbursing, reimbursing -- Sanson Napollon -- Naturalizing merchants -- North Africans in Marseille -- Northerners in the Mediterranean -- Ships' captains and patrons -- Tasks entrusted to captains -- Port practices : packaging-plague-quarantine -- Setting sail -- Merchant routes -- Mapping the Mediterranean -- Sicily -- People in motion -- Ottoman Empire news -- Time and timings -- Corsairs -- Ransoming -- End points -- Merchants as intellectual partners -- Before Statistik -- Peiresc's mixing in Cairo's consular politics -- Peiresc and travel -- Where Mediterranean meets Orient : Ethiopia, India, Yemen -- At the still point -- Appendices
- Control code
- FIEb17712889
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 630 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674744066
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)893709490
- Label
- Peiresc's Mediterranean world, Peter N. Miller
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Algiers, June 1932 -- Marseille-Aix -- Marseille and the French Mediterranean -- Peiresc's letters -- Contingency -- Writing to the Levant 1627-1637 -- Peiresc's names, or, On reading the namescape -- The problem of detail -- The postal link -- The last mile (Mule is king) -- Marseille's merchants -- Marseille merchant families -- Financing, disbursing, reimbursing -- Sanson Napollon -- Naturalizing merchants -- North Africans in Marseille -- Northerners in the Mediterranean -- Ships' captains and patrons -- Tasks entrusted to captains -- Port practices : packaging-plague-quarantine -- Setting sail -- Merchant routes -- Mapping the Mediterranean -- Sicily -- People in motion -- Ottoman Empire news -- Time and timings -- Corsairs -- Ransoming -- End points -- Merchants as intellectual partners -- Before Statistik -- Peiresc's mixing in Cairo's consular politics -- Peiresc and travel -- Where Mediterranean meets Orient : Ethiopia, India, Yemen -- At the still point -- Appendices
- Control code
- FIEb17712889
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 630 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674744066
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)893709490
Subject
- Humanists -- France -- Archives
- Intellectuals -- France -- Archives
- Marseille (France) -- Relations -- Mediterranean Region -- Sources
- Mediterranean Region -- Commerce | History -- 17th century -- Sources
- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 17th century -- Sources
- France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century -- Sources
- Mediterranean Region -- Relations -- France | Marseille -- Sources
- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, 1580-1637 -- Archives
- Mediterranean Region -- History, Naval -- 17th century -- Sources
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