Peiresc's Orient
Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-21968-6
- EAN: 9781351219686
- Produktnummer: 24434404
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 374 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'416'754 KB
Über den Autor
Peter N. Miller is Dean and Professor of Cultural History, Bard Graduate Center, New York, USA.
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