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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

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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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Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc was the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. His insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge. Mining his 70,000-page archive, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century.

Intellectuals --- Humanists --- Scholars --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, --- Mediterranean Region --- Marseille (France) --- France --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Marseilles (France) --- Marsel' (France) --- Marsiglia (France) --- Marsiho (France) --- Marsella (France) --- History --- History, Naval --- Commerce --- Relations --- Intellectual life --- Fabri de Peiresc, Nicolas Claude, --- Fabricius de Peiresc, Nicolaus Claudius, --- De Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri, --- Peirescius, Fabricius, --- Peireskius, Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius, --- Perescius, Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius,

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The theme of this book is the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain. The revolt of the North American colonies and the simultaneous demand for wider religious toleration at home challenged the principles of sovereignty and obligation that underpinned arguments about the character of the state. These were expressed in terms of the 'common good', 'necessity', and 'community' - concepts that came to the fore in early modern European political thought and which gave expression to the problem of defining legitimate authority in a period of increasing consciousness of state power. The Americans and their British supporters argued that individuals ought to determine the common good of the community. A new theory of representation and freedom of thought defines the cutting edge of this revolutionary redefinition of the basic relationship between individual and community.

Common good. --- Imperialism --- Philosophy, British --- Political science --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Public interest --- History --- Great Britain --- Church history --- Politics and government --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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History, Ancient --- Historiography --- Momigliano, Arnaldo --- Criticism and interpretation.