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Author Miller, Peter N., 1964- author.

Title Peiresc's Mediterranean world / Peter N. Miller.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 630 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, 1580-1637 -- Archives.
Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, 1580-1637.
Genre/Form Archives.
Subject Mediterranean Region -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
Mediterranean Region.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Mediterranean Region -- History, Naval -- 17th century -- Sources.
Naval history.
Mediterranean Region -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
Commerce.
Marseille (France) -- Relations -- Mediterranean Region -- Sources.
Mediterranean Region -- Relations -- France -- Marseille -- Sources.
Relations.
France.
France -- Marseille.
Intellectuals -- France -- Archives.
Intellectuals.
Humanists -- France -- Archives.
Humanists.
France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century -- Sources.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form History.
Naval history.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Miller, Peter N., 1964- Peiresc's Mediterranean world 9780674744066 (DLC) 2014042004 (OCoLC)893709490
ISBN 9780674425750 electronic book
0674425758 electronic book
9780674744066
0674744063