The republic of letters and the Levant
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The republic of letters and the Levant
(Intersections : yearbook for early modern studies, v. 5 ; 2005)
Brill, 2005
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  Toyama
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  Fukui
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  Kyoto
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  Hyogo
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  Wakayama
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The eleven articles in this book seek to document the interest in the Levant that prevailed in the Republic of Letters from the Renaissance to the late eighteenth century. The emphasis is on those collectors of manuscripts and antiquaries who either travelled in the Middle East (the Vecchietti brothers, John Greaves and Patrick Russell) or who, remaining in Europe, acted through agents and correspondents - scholars such as Peiresc, John Selden and Robert Boyle. But themes such as the discussion prompted by European translations of the Quran and by scholarly enterprises in the East (such as the Mutaferrika printing press in Istanbul) also come to the fore in a volume which contributes to the history of oriental studies in early modern Europe.
Contributors include: Maurits H. van den Boogert, Alastair Hamilton, Charles G.D. Littleton, Peter N. Miller, Hannah Neudecker, Francis Richard, Jan Schmidt, Zur Shalev, and G.J. Toomer.
Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
Introduction, Alastair Hamilton
1. Les freres Vecchietti, diplomates, erudits et aventuriers, Francis Richard
2. Between Author and Library Shelf: The Intriguing History of Some Middle Eastern Manuscripts Acquired by Public Collections in the Netherlands prior to 1800, Jan Schmidt
3. John Selden, the Levant and the Netherlands in the History of Scholarship, G.J. Toomer
4. The Travel Notebooks of John Greaves, Zur Shalev
5. Peiresc, the Levant and the Mediterranean, Peter N. Miller
6. 'To Divest the East of all its Manuscripts and all its Rarities'. The Unfortunate Embassy of Henri Gournay de Marcheville, Alastair Hamilton
7. Ancient Languages and New Science. The Levant in the Intellectual Life of Robert Boyle, Charles G.D. Littleton
8. From Istanbul to London? Albertus Bobovius' Appeal to Isaac Basire, Hannah Neudecker
9. A Lutheran Translator for the Quran. A Late Seventeenth-Century Quest, Alastair Hamilton
10. Patrick Russell and the Republic of Letters in Aleppo, Maurits H. van den Boogert
11. The Sultan's Answer to the Medici Press? Ibrahim Muteferrika's Printing House in Istanbul, Maurits H. van den Boogert
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