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Peiresc's Mediterranean world /

Main Author: Miller, Peter N., 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London England : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, > 1580-1637 > Marseille
Intellectuals > France
Humanists > France
Mediterranean Region > History > 17th century
Mediterranean Region > History, Naval > 17th century
Mediterranean Region > Commerce > 17th century > History
Marseille (France) > Relations > Mediterranean Region
Mediterranean Region > Relations > France
France > Intellectual life > 17th century
Μεσόγειος, περιοχή της > Ιστορία, Ναυτική > 17ος αιώνας
Μεσόγειος, περιοχή της > Ιστορια > 17ος αιώνας
Table of Contents:
  • Algiers, June 1932
  • Marseille-Aix
  • Marseille and the French Mediterranean
  • Peiresc's letters
  • Contingency
  • Writing to the Levant 1627-1637
  • Peiresc's names, or, On reading the namescape
  • The problem of detail
  • The postal link
  • The last mile (Mule is king)
  • Marseille's merchants
  • Marseille merchant families
  • Financing, disbursing, reimbursing
  • Sanson Napollon
  • Naturalizing merchants
  • North Africans in Marseille
  • Northerners in the Mediterranean
  • Ships' captains and patrons
  • Tasks entrusted to captains
  • Port practices : packaging-plague-quarantine
  • Setting sail
  • Merchant routes
  • Mapping the Mediterranean
  • Sicily
  • People in motion
  • Ottoman Empire news
  • Time and timings
  • Corsairs
  • Ransoming
  • End points
  • Merchants as intellectual partners
  • Before Statistik
  • Peiresc's mixing in Cairo's consular politics
  • Peiresc and travel
  • Where Mediterranean meets Orient : Ethiopia, India, Yemen
  • At the still point
  • Appendices.

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