Peiresc's History of Provence: Antiquarianism and the Discovery of a Medieval Mediterranean Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 101, Pa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781606180136)

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) persisted as a major source of historical innovation and renovation, and that this continues up through the present time. Contents: Peiresc and AN; AN and an Archival "Science"; Researching the History of Provence; Peiresc's Medieval Mediterranean in the History of Historiography. Illus.

Author: Peter N. Miller
ISBN-10: 1606180134
ISBN-13: 9781606180136
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2011
Pages: 104
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 23