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Peiresc's Orient - Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)
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Peiresc's Orient - Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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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, makes this such a compelling project. The essays are
arranged in a roughly chronological order. They follow the course
of Peiresc's own projects from his early encounter with the ancient
Near East in Greek and Roman literature, through his engagement
with Arabic to his deepening kowledge of rabbinic texts to the
wider world of the new oriental studies of the seventeenth century
which he helped create: Samaritan, Coptic and Ethiopic.
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