Collection of texts previously published.
Includes index.
Introduction: Peiresc and history
Comparison. "The antiquary's art of comparison: Peiresc and Abraxas." Philologie und Erkenntnis: Beiträge zu Begriff und Problem frühneuzeitlicher 'Philologie', ed. Ralph Häfner, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2001, 57-94
Paganism. "Taking paganism seriously: anthropology and antiquarianism in early seventeenth-century histories of religion," Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, 3 (2001), 183-209
Arabic. "Peiresc and the study of Islamic coins in the early seventeenth century," The rebirth of antiquity: numismatics, archaeology and Classical studies in the culture of the Renaissance, ed. Alan G. Stahl (= Princeton University Library Chronicle, Winter, 2008), 315-70
Samaritan I. "An antiquary between philology and history: Peiresc and the Samaritans." in History and the disciplines. ed. Donald R. Kelley, Rochester: Rochester University Press, 1997, 163-84
Samaritan II. "A philologist, a traveller and an antiquary rediscover the Samaritans in seventeenth-century Paris, Rome and Aix: Jean Morin, Pietro Della Valle and N.C. Fabri de Peiresc," Gelehrsamkeit als Praxis: Arbeitsweisen, Funktionen, Grenzbereiche, eds. Helmut Zedelmaier and Martin Mulsow, Tübingen, 2001, 123-46
Hebrew. "The mechanics of Christian-Jewish intellectual collaboration in seventeenth-century Provence: N.-C. Fabri de Peiresc and Salomon Azubi," Hebraica veritas? Christian Hebraists, Jews, and the study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe, eds. Allison Coudert and Jeffrey Shoulson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 71-101
Coptic. "Copts and scholars: Kircher in Peiresc's Republic of letters," Athanasius Kircher: the last man who knew everything, ed. Paula Findlen (London: Routledge, 2004), 133-48
North Africa. "Peiresc in Africa: arm-chair anthropology in the early seventeenth century," Les premiers siècles de la république européenne des lettres (1368-1638), ed. Marianne Lion-Violet (Paris: Alain Baudry, 2005), 493-525
West Africa. "History of religion becomes ethnology: some evidence from Peiresc's Africa," Journal of the history of ideas, 67 (2006), 675-96
East Africa. "Peiresc's Ethiopia: How? and why?," Lias, 37 (2010), 55-88
Conclusion: oriental studies and orientalism.
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Peiresc's Orient : antiquarianism as cultural history in the seventeenth century by Peter N. Miller. ISBN 9781409432982. Published by Ashgate Pub. Limited in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
