Peter N Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 293835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter N Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter N |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER P N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1163-5728 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conserving Active Matter
On the Departure of a Group of Soldiers for Libya
History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500
Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture—the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary—rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in 100 Objects indicate the growing popularity of this way of understanding the past. This book uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with explori…
Peiresc's Mediterranean World
"Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), was a 'prince' of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc's study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exotic--travel times and insurance premiums, rare manuscripts and …
La méditerranée de Peiresc: Ce que les enseignements du XVIIe siècle apportent au XXIe
Miller Peter N. La méditerranée de Peiresc : ce que les enseignements du XVIIe siècle apportent au XXIe. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 157e année, N. 2, 2013. pp. 861-871
Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc
This chapter explores the history of antiquarianism. Such as history would begin with Petrarch, not as an ideologist of antiquity but as a student of its material remains, especially in verbal form (manuscripts, epigraphy, numismatics). The next highpoint occurs a century later, in the 1440s, with Poggio Bracciolini, Flavio Biondo, and Cyriac of Ancona. A century later still, the lead is taken by a group of scholars circling around the household …
Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800
This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise in historical recovery, the essays in this volume amass new information about the range of antiquarian-type scholarship on the past, on nature, and on peoples und…
The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought
Eric Nelson. The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. x + 230 pp. index. bibl. $27.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–05058–7. - Volume 64 Issue 1
Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
When Humanity Was in the Humanities
Research Article| January 01 2008 When Humanity Was in the Humanities: Peiresc in the 1630s Peter N. Miller Peter N. Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 136–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-036 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Ci…
Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences
Lost and Found
Lost and Found Peter N. Miller, Professor and Chair of Academic Programs My memory of reading Zakhor is clear; it inspired the first piece of scholarship that I ever published, in a student journal during my last year at Harvard. Almost ten years later, at the University of Chicago, I heard Robert Bonfil present his alternate view of the sixteenth century in the history of Jewish historiography. If, for Yosef Yerushalmi, the shattering reality of…
History of Religion Becomes Ethnology: Some Evidence from Peiresc's Africa
History of Religion Becomes Ethnology: Some Evidence from Peiresc's Africa Peter N. Miller Bard Graduate Center Abstract The relationship between history of religion and ethnology on the one hand, and antiquarianism and them both, on the other, lie at the core of this essay. These lines of inquiry come together in the work of Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), the intellectually adventurous Provençal late humanist. Peiresc's correspondence wit…
The "Antiquarianization" of Biblical Scholarship and the London Polyglot Bible (1653-57)
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 62, Number 3, July 2001
The Antiquary’s Art of Comparison: Peiresc and Abraxas
Taking Paganism Seriously: Anthropology and Antiquarianism in Early Seventeenth-Century Histories of Religion
Article Taking Paganism Seriously: Anthropology and Antiquarianism in Early Seventeenth-Century Histories of Religion was published on December 31, 2001 in the journal Archiv für Religionsgeschichte (volume 3, issue 1)
Cassiano dal Pozzo und die Archäologie des 17. Jahrhunderts
Ingo Herklotz, Cassiano dalPozzo und die Archäologie des 17. Jahrhunderts (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 28.) Munich: Hirmer, 1999. 226 pls. + 439 pp. DM 268. ISBN: 3-7774-7750-8. - Volume 54 Issue 1
Stoics Who Sing: Lessons in Citizenship From Early Modern Lucca
Lucca was the smallest and least important of the three Italian republics that survived the Renaissance. Venice and Genoa still command the attention of historians. But in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for all that it might seem out-of-the-way, Lucca developed an extraordinary political literature. The regular election of senators was marked by the musical performance of a text, generally drawn from Roman history, that illustrated the…
Friendship and Conversation in Seventeenth-Century Venice
The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: The Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought . Philip Jacks G. J. Vossius and the Humanist Concept of History . Nicholas Wickenden , F. F. Blok , C. S. M. Rade…
Citizenship and Culture in Early Modern Europe
Charlotte Wells, Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), xviii, 198p. Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1994), xviii, 449p. Steven Shapin, The Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago and London: University of Chi…
Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789
Citizenship and Culture in Early Modern Europe Peter N. Miller Charlotte Wells, Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), xviii, 198p. Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1994), xviii, 449p. Steven Shapin, The Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Sev…
Statecraft and culture in early modern Europe
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The correspondence of Richard Price, volume II: March 1778–February 1786
The Song of the Soul: Understanding Poppea
History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500
Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture—the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary—rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in 100 Objects indicate the growing popularity of this way of understanding the past. This book uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with explori…
Freethinking’ and ‘Freedom of Thought’ in eighteenth-century Britain
In early modern Europe, religious heterodoxy and intellectual inquiry posed serious challenges to the authority of centralizing forces both secular and ecclesiastical. At the same time, however, these dangerous developments had been driven by those individuals whom eighteenth-century writers had adopted as ‘culture heroes’ for an age increasingly self-conscious of its own enlightened status. In Britain, the newly established order defended itself…
History of Religion Becomes Ethnology: Some Evidence from Peiresc's Africa
History of Religion Becomes Ethnology: Some Evidence from Peiresc's Africa Peter N. Miller Bard Graduate Center Abstract The relationship between history of religion and ethnology on the one hand, and antiquarianism and them both, on the other, lie at the core of this essay. These lines of inquiry come together in the work of Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), the intellectually adventurous Provençal late humanist. Peiresc's correspondence wit…
Friendship and Conversation in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Statecraft and culture in early modern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Song of the Soul: Understanding Poppea
Freethinking’ and ‘Freedom of Thought’ in eighteenth-century Britain
In early modern Europe, religious heterodoxy and intellectual inquiry posed serious challenges to the authority of centralizing forces both secular and ecclesiastical. At the same time, however, these dangerous developments had been driven by those individuals whom eighteenth-century writers had adopted as ‘culture heroes’ for an age increasingly self-conscious of its own enlightened status. In Britain, the newly established order defended itself…
The correspondence of Richard Price, volume II: March 1778–February 1786
The Song of the Soul: Understanding Poppea
Statecraft and culture in early modern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: The Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought . Philip Jacks G. J. Vossius and the Humanist Concept of History . Nicholas Wickenden , F. F. Blok , C. S. M. Rade…
Citizenship and Culture in Early Modern Europe
Charlotte Wells, Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), xviii, 198p. Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1994), xviii, 449p. Steven Shapin, The Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago and London: University of Chi…
Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789
Citizenship and Culture in Early Modern Europe Peter N. Miller Charlotte Wells, Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), xviii, 198p. Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1994), xviii, 449p. Steven Shapin, The Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Sev…
The "Antiquarianization" of Biblical Scholarship and the London Polyglot Bible (1653-57)
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 62, Number 3, July 2001
The Antiquary’s Art of Comparison: Peiresc and Abraxas
Taking Paganism Seriously: Anthropology and Antiquarianism in Early Seventeenth-Century Histories of Religion
Article Taking Paganism Seriously: Anthropology and Antiquarianism in Early Seventeenth-Century Histories of Religion was published on December 31, 2001 in the journal Archiv für Religionsgeschichte (volume 3, issue 1)
Cassiano dal Pozzo und die Archäologie des 17. Jahrhunderts
Ingo Herklotz, Cassiano dalPozzo und die Archäologie des 17. Jahrhunderts (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 28.) Munich: Hirmer, 1999. 226 pls. + 439 pp. DM 268. ISBN: 3-7774-7750-8. - Volume 54 Issue 1
Stoics Who Sing: Lessons in Citizenship From Early Modern Lucca
Lucca was the smallest and least important of the three Italian republics that survived the Renaissance. Venice and Genoa still command the attention of historians. But in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for all that it might seem out-of-the-way, Lucca developed an extraordinary political literature. The regular election of senators was marked by the musical performance of a text, generally drawn from Roman history, that illustrated the…
Friendship and Conversation in Seventeenth-Century Venice
History of Religion Becomes Ethnology: Some Evidence from Peiresc's Africa
History of Religion Becomes Ethnology: Some Evidence from Peiresc's Africa Peter N. Miller Bard Graduate Center Abstract The relationship between history of religion and ethnology on the one hand, and antiquarianism and them both, on the other, lie at the core of this essay. These lines of inquiry come together in the work of Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), the intellectually adventurous Provençal late humanist. Peiresc's correspondence wit…
Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences
Lost and Found
Lost and Found Peter N. Miller, Professor and Chair of Academic Programs My memory of reading Zakhor is clear; it inspired the first piece of scholarship that I ever published, in a student journal during my last year at Harvard. Almost ten years later, at the University of Chicago, I heard Robert Bonfil present his alternate view of the sixteenth century in the history of Jewish historiography. If, for Yosef Yerushalmi, the shattering reality of…
When Humanity Was in the Humanities
Research Article| January 01 2008 When Humanity Was in the Humanities: Peiresc in the 1630s Peter N. Miller Peter N. Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 136–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-036 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Ci…
Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought
Eric Nelson. The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. x + 230 pp. index. bibl. $27.95. ISBN: 978–0–674–05058–7. - Volume 64 Issue 1
Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc
This chapter explores the history of antiquarianism. Such as history would begin with Petrarch, not as an ideologist of antiquity but as a student of its material remains, especially in verbal form (manuscripts, epigraphy, numismatics). The next highpoint occurs a century later, in the 1440s, with Poggio Bracciolini, Flavio Biondo, and Cyriac of Ancona. A century later still, the lead is taken by a group of scholars circling around the household …
Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800
This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise in historical recovery, the essays in this volume amass new information about the range of antiquarian-type scholarship on the past, on nature, and on peoples und…
La méditerranée de Peiresc: Ce que les enseignements du XVIIe siècle apportent au XXIe
Miller Peter N. La méditerranée de Peiresc : ce que les enseignements du XVIIe siècle apportent au XXIe. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 157e année, N. 2, 2013. pp. 861-871
Peiresc's Mediterranean World
"Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), was a 'prince' of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc's study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exotic--travel times and insurance premiums, rare manuscripts and …
History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500
Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture—the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary—rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in 100 Objects indicate the growing popularity of this way of understanding the past. This book uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with explori…
On the Departure of a Group of Soldiers for Libya
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