Peiresc's Orient
Subtitle: antiquarianism as cultural history in the seventeenth century
By: by Peter N. Miller
Series: Variorum collected studies series -- CS998; Collected studies -- CS998.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Limited
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409432982
Subjects: Historiography; Intellectual life; Orientalism; History; Humanists; Biography; Antiquities
Notes: Collection of texts previously published.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Peiresc and history; title: Comparison. "The antiquary's art of comparison: Peiresc and Abraxas." Philologie und Erkenntnis: Beiträge zu Begriff und Problem frühneuzeitlicher 'Philologie', ed. Ralph Häfner, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2001, 57-94; title: Paganism. "Taking paganism seriously: anthropology and antiquarianism in early seventeenth-century histories of religion," Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, 3 (2001), 183-209; title: Arabic. "Peiresc and the study of Islamic coins in the early seventeenth century," The rebirth of antiquity: numismatics, archaeology and Classical studies in the culture of the Renaissance, ed. Alan G. Stahl (= Princeton University Library Chronicle, Winter, 2008), 315-70; title: Samaritan I. "An antiquary between philology and history: Peiresc and the Samaritans." in History and the disciplines. ed. Donald R. Kelley, Rochester: Rochester University Press, 1997, 163-84; title: Samaritan II. "A philologist, a traveller and an antiquary rediscover the Samaritans in seventeenth-century Paris, Rome and Aix: Jean Morin, Pietro Della Valle and N.C. Fabri de Peiresc," Gelehrsamkeit als Praxis: Arbeitsweisen, Funktionen, Grenzbereiche, eds. Helmut Zedelmaier and Martin Mulsow, Tübingen, 2001, 123-46; title: Hebrew. "The mechanics of Christian-Jewish intellectual collaboration in seventeenth-century Provence: N.-C. Fabri de Peiresc and Salomon Azubi," Hebraica veritas? Christian Hebraists, Jews, and the study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe, eds. Allison Coudert and Jeffrey Shoulson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 71-101; title: Coptic. "Copts and scholars: Kircher in Peiresc's Republic of letters," Athanasius Kircher: the last man who knew everything, ed. Paula Findlen (London: Routledge, 2004), 133-48; title: North Africa. "Peiresc in Africa: arm-chair anthropology in the early seventeenth century," Les premiers siècles de la république européenne des lettres (1368-1638), ed. Marianne Lion-Violet (Paris: Alain Baudry, 2005), 493-525; title: West Africa. "History of religion becomes ethnology: some evidence from Peiresc's Africa," Journal of the history of ideas, 67 (2006), 675-96; title: East Africa. "Peiresc's Ethiopia: How? and why?," Lias, 37 (2010), 55-88; title: Conclusion: oriental studies and orientalism.