Peter N. Miller
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780801453700
- eISBN:
- 9781501708244
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801453700.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This chapter surveys the antiquarians of the Late Renaissance to Early Enlightenment periods. It shows how Italy in the sixteenth century saw an even deeper and broader engagement with the ...
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This chapter surveys the antiquarians of the Late Renaissance to Early Enlightenment periods. It shows how Italy in the sixteenth century saw an even deeper and broader engagement with the antiquities, and the identification of a group of people devoted to the study of its material remains. Through objects, Renaissance scholars gained access to parts of the past that were not discussed in texts or were discussed in texts that no longer survived. By the end of the sixteenth century, antiquarianism had spread across Europe, and the chapter pinpoints these waves of progress in the history of antiquarianism through a number of key individuals: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637), Jacob Spon (1647–1685), and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716).Less
This chapter surveys the antiquarians of the Late Renaissance to Early Enlightenment periods. It shows how Italy in the sixteenth century saw an even deeper and broader engagement with the antiquities, and the identification of a group of people devoted to the study of its material remains. Through objects, Renaissance scholars gained access to parts of the past that were not discussed in texts or were discussed in texts that no longer survived. By the end of the sixteenth century, antiquarianism had spread across Europe, and the chapter pinpoints these waves of progress in the history of antiquarianism through a number of key individuals: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637), Jacob Spon (1647–1685), and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716).
Alexander Bevilacqua and Frederic Clark
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226601175
- eISBN:
- 9780226601342
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226601342.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
Interview with Peter N. Miller, Dean and Professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York City. Topics include intellectual history; antiquarianism; merchants; republic of letters; Nicolas-Claude ...
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Interview with Peter N. Miller, Dean and Professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York City. Topics include intellectual history; antiquarianism; merchants; republic of letters; Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc; and the notion of Bildung.Less
Interview with Peter N. Miller, Dean and Professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York City. Topics include intellectual history; antiquarianism; merchants; republic of letters; Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc; and the notion of Bildung.
