The Republic of Letters and the Levant
Published on 11. November 2005
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-90-04-14761-4 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Dieser Sammelband weist ein weiteres Mal die herausragende Qualitaet des Jahrbuchs fuer Fruehneuzeit-Studien, Intersections, nach. [...] Er ist ein wesentlicher Beitrag zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Fruehen Neuzeit." - Kai Bremer, Zentrum fuer Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, in: Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 87, No. 3 (2007), pp. 419-420More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
685 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-14761-4 (9789004147614)
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Persons
Alastair Hamilton is Professor Emeritus of the History of the Radical Reformation at the University of Amsterdam, the C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas at Leiden University, and the Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, attached to the Warburg Institute.
Maurits van den Boogert is researcher at Leiden University, and is currently working on Ottoman miscellaneous manuscripts.
Bart Westerweel is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern English Literature at Leiden University.
Maurits van den Boogert is researcher at Leiden University, and is currently working on Ottoman miscellaneous manuscripts.
Bart Westerweel is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern English Literature at Leiden University.
Content
List of Illustrations
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 Mueteferrika's Printing House in Istanbul, Maurits H. van den Boogert
Index Nominum
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 Mueteferrika's Printing House in Istanbul, Maurits H. van den Boogert
Index Nominum