Peiresc's Europe
Subtitle: learning and virtue in the seventeenth century
By: Peter N. Miller.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, 1580-1637.; Humanists -- France -- Biography.; Statesmen -- France -- Biography.; France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Drawing on the extensive Peiresc archive, Miller evokes the lives of the antiquaries, philosophers, theologians, and politicians of Peiresc's day, only some of whom remain known today. He explores the age in which Peiresc's toleration and sociability, his political action and cosmopolitanism, and his serious scholarship without dogmatism were identified as a set of virtues and practices by which to live.

Peiresc's notion of scholarship as a moral exercise, the sweep of his interests, and the cross-Continental reach of his intellectual life show with new clarity what it meant to be a man of learning during the decades around 1600."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.