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Antiquarians --- Historiography --- Learning and scholarship --- History --- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Provence (France) --- Mediterranean Region --- Antiquarians - France - History - 17th century --- Historiography - France - History - 17th century --- Learning and scholarship - France - History - 17th century --- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, - 1580-1637. - Abrege de l'histoire de Provence et autres textes inedits --- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, - 1580-1637 - Criticism and interpretation --- Provence (France) - Historiography --- Mediterranean Region - History - 476-1517 - Historiography --- Peiresc, nicolas claude fabri (1580-1637 ; seigneur de) --- Peiresc, nicolas claude fabri de, 1580-1637. abrégé de l'histoire de provence et autres textes inédits --- Historiographie --- Savoir et érudition --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- Provence (france) --- Critique et interprétation --- France --- 17e siècle --- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, - 1580-1637

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"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

History of civilization --- Peiresc, de, Nicolas-Claude Fabri --- anno 1600-1699 --- Mediterranean countries --- Intellectuals --- Humanists --- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, --- Mediterranean Region --- Marseille (France) --- France --- History --- History, Naval --- Commerce --- Relations --- Intellectual life --- Intellectuals - France - Archives --- Humanists - France - Archives --- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, - 1580-1637 - Archives --- Mediterranean Region - History - 17th century - Sources --- Mediterranean Region - History, Naval - 17th century - Sources --- Mediterranean Region - Commerce - History - 17th century - Sources --- Marseille (France) - Relations - Mediterranean Region - Sources --- Mediterranean Region - Relations - France - Marseille - Sources --- France - Intellectual life - 17th century - Sources --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, - 1580-1637