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Peiresc's Orient: Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century

Peiresc's Orient: Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century

Miller, Peter N.

Paperback

Series: Variorum Collected Studies

General Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1138110299
ISBN13: 9781138110298
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 22 2017
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 Christian, this was the world of the Bible that impacted upon the Greeks and Romans. And for Peiresc of the Mediterranean (for he was born in Aix, spent much time in Marseille, and lived outside of the region for only 6 of his 57 years), this was the territory that his friends and colleagues sailed to, lived in and, usually, came back from. The convergence of these axes in the life of one man, and a man of singular intellectual power and charm whose vast personal paper arsenal had survived, made this such a compelling project.

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