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The Country Road by Regina Ullmann

The Country Road by Regina Ullmann wonder at the world: 70,000 pieces of paper survive as witnesses to the corre - spondence networks that connected this “landlocked orientalist” in Provence to worlds of information spanning the old and new worlds. Miller has read it all, amazingly, and what a palette to work from. Three books (first Peiresc’s Europe in 2000, then his Orient in 2012, now his Mediterranean) and a slew of articles later, and the message is clear: merchants really mattered. Mere humanists and university scholars were not enough for Peiresc. Instead, knowledge resided in the practical and nimble expertise of merchants, the familiar factors of Marseille but also those faceless agents farther ae fi ld whom Peiresc could only identify by their handwriting. Miller is a master of the micro, to be sure, but he is also fight - ing with ghosts throughout the book: Fernand Braudel, S.  D. Goitein, Henri Pirenne, they are all there vying for a spot alongside Miller’s protagonist. But amid the cacophony of their voices, one question goes unanswered: how much of Peiresc’s (or is it Miller’s?) Mediterranean is part of a wider world of practices shared by contemporaries far beyond the bustling hub of Marseille? If Peiresc http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

The Country Road by Regina Ullmann

Common Knowledge , Volume 24 (2) – Apr 1, 2018

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0961-754X
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1538-4578
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10.1215/0961754X-4362607
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Abstract

wonder at the world: 70,000 pieces of paper survive as witnesses to the corre - spondence networks that connected this “landlocked orientalist” in Provence to worlds of information spanning the old and new worlds. Miller has read it all, amazingly, and what a palette to work from. Three books (first Peiresc’s Europe in 2000, then his Orient in 2012, now his Mediterranean) and a slew of articles later, and the message is clear: merchants really mattered. Mere humanists and university scholars were not enough for Peiresc. Instead, knowledge resided in the practical and nimble expertise of merchants, the familiar factors of Marseille but also those faceless agents farther ae fi ld whom Peiresc could only identify by their handwriting. Miller is a master of the micro, to be sure, but he is also fight - ing with ghosts throughout the book: Fernand Braudel, S.  D. Goitein, Henri Pirenne, they are all there vying for a spot alongside Miller’s protagonist. But amid the cacophony of their voices, one question goes unanswered: how much of Peiresc’s (or is it Miller’s?) Mediterranean is part of a wider world of practices shared by contemporaries far beyond the bustling hub of Marseille? If Peiresc

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Published: Apr 1, 2018

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