Peiresc's History of Provence: Antiquarianism and the Discovery of a Medieval Mediterranean Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 101, P

by Peter N. Miller

This is both a historical detective work -- piecing together an innovative research project of the 1620s -- and a provocative argument, based on the reconstruction of Peiresc's project. Our understanding of the history of historical scholarship needs to be turned upside down. In the "how" and "why" of Peiresc's scholarly practice and, in the chain of those who understood and remembered him, we learn that far from disappearing, antiquarianism (AN)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606180134
• ISBN13: 9781606180136
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 104 Pages