Peiresc's Europe Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/2000
Drawing on the extensive Peiresc archive (more than 100,000 pieces of paper), Miller brilliantly evokes the lives of antiquaries, philosophers, theologians, politicians of Peiresc's only some of whom re known today. He explores the age in which Peiresc's toleration and sociability his political action a cosmopolitanism, and his serious scholarship without dogmatism were identified as a set of virtues and practices by which to live. Peiresc's notion of scholarship as a moral exercise, the sweep of his interests, and the cross-Continental reach of his intellectual life show with new clarity what it meant to be a man of learning during the decades around 1600.
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