Alexander Bevilacqua
Biographic Data
| ID | 3963541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Bevilacqua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Bevilacqua |
| SIGNATURE | BEVILACQUA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2758-6219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Typographia Botanica: Printing Nature in the Age of Linnaeus
Race-Making Festivities in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1652-1750
The four generations of Hohenzollern rulers who transformed the electorate of Brandenburg into the kingdom of Prussia - a regional player into a great power - all employed Black men at their courts and in their armies. Through court performance, including processions and tournaments, as well as through artistic commissions, the Brandenburgian rulers adapted existing traditions of representing and displaying human difference and hierarchy for thei…
E. Natalie Rothman, The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism
A group of intermediaries left fingerprints on much European knowledge production about the Ottoman Empire and its culture between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, but has largely been forgotten: the diplomatic interpreters known as dragomans, a designation that remains a term of art.Like the contributions of so many intermediaries of the early modern world, the dragomans' collective labor was underacknowledged in their own time and has be…
I an C oller . Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution
In Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution, Ian Coller writes that the French Revolution birthed “a project that remains unfinished, and a struggle that continues today” (229). He investigates the place of Islam to show that the Revolution’s emancipatory promise, barely fulfilled in its own time, remains relevant in ours. In ten brisk, carefully researched chapters, Muslims and Citizens argues that the revolutionary decad…
A Dragoman and a Scholar: French Knowledge-Making in the Mediterranean from Old Regime to Bonaparte
What was the relationship between the component parts of early modern French knowledge-making in the Mediterranean? And how did the revolutionary decade transform the Old Regime knowledge ecosystem? This essay seeks answers through the prism of a single life. Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis was a French dragoman (diplomatic interpreter) in the eighteenth century, serving consulates and missions across the Mediterranean and later working as General…
The Qur'an in Comparison, and the Birth of ‘scriptures’
Early modern Europeans developed several ways of thinking about the Qur'an and the person whom they took to be its author, the Prophet Muḥammad. This article looks at two distinct traditions of reading the Qur'an as law and as literature and shows how these traditions intersected and eventually merged. Together, they made the Qur'an fruitful for ‘thinking with’ under a variety of headings. Philologists, not philosophes, advanced this long-term pr…
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment
A Longman-History Today Book Prize Finalist Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year "Deeply thoughtful...A delight." -The Economist "[A] tour de force...Bevilacqua's extraordinary book provides the first true glimpse into this story...He, like the tradition he describes, is a rarity." -New Republic In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Western scholars laid the gr…
Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the secrets of antiquity
When, in the seventeenth century, Oriental studies seemed to promise the discovery of new worlds, Rome's institutions, collections, and its Eurasian networks of missionaries and scholars made the c
The Birth of Orientalism
Conceiving the Republic of Mankind: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots
During the French Revolution, Jean-Baptiste "Anacharsis" Cloots (1755–1794) developed a theory of the world state as the means to guarantee perpetual peace for mankind. Though his ideas have largely been misunderstood, Cloots's political writings were in fact an extensive plea for a more cosmopolitan understanding of the French Revolution. His system adapted institutions and concepts of the French revolutionary republic for a world state, the rep…
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Conceiving the Republic of Mankind: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots
During the French Revolution, Jean-Baptiste "Anacharsis" Cloots (1755–1794) developed a theory of the world state as the means to guarantee perpetual peace for mankind. Though his ideas have largely been misunderstood, Cloots's political writings were in fact an extensive plea for a more cosmopolitan understanding of the French Revolution. His system adapted institutions and concepts of the French revolutionary republic for a world state, the rep…
The Birth of Orientalism
Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the secrets of antiquity
When, in the seventeenth century, Oriental studies seemed to promise the discovery of new worlds, Rome's institutions, collections, and its Eurasian networks of missionaries and scholars made the c
The Qur'an in Comparison, and the Birth of ‘scriptures’
Early modern Europeans developed several ways of thinking about the Qur'an and the person whom they took to be its author, the Prophet Muḥammad. This article looks at two distinct traditions of reading the Qur'an as law and as literature and shows how these traditions intersected and eventually merged. Together, they made the Qur'an fruitful for ‘thinking with’ under a variety of headings. Philologists, not philosophes, advanced this long-term pr…
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment
A Longman-History Today Book Prize Finalist Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year "Deeply thoughtful...A delight." -The Economist "[A] tour de force...Bevilacqua's extraordinary book provides the first true glimpse into this story...He, like the tradition he describes, is a rarity." -New Republic In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Western scholars laid the gr…
I an C oller . Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution
In Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution, Ian Coller writes that the French Revolution birthed “a project that remains unfinished, and a struggle that continues today” (229). He investigates the place of Islam to show that the Revolution’s emancipatory promise, barely fulfilled in its own time, remains relevant in ours. In ten brisk, carefully researched chapters, Muslims and Citizens argues that the revolutionary decad…
A Dragoman and a Scholar: French Knowledge-Making in the Mediterranean from Old Regime to Bonaparte
What was the relationship between the component parts of early modern French knowledge-making in the Mediterranean? And how did the revolutionary decade transform the Old Regime knowledge ecosystem? This essay seeks answers through the prism of a single life. Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis was a French dragoman (diplomatic interpreter) in the eighteenth century, serving consulates and missions across the Mediterranean and later working as General…
E. Natalie Rothman, The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism
A group of intermediaries left fingerprints on much European knowledge production about the Ottoman Empire and its culture between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, but has largely been forgotten: the diplomatic interpreters known as dragomans, a designation that remains a term of art.Like the contributions of so many intermediaries of the early modern world, the dragomans' collective labor was underacknowledged in their own time and has be…
Race-Making Festivities in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1652-1750
The four generations of Hohenzollern rulers who transformed the electorate of Brandenburg into the kingdom of Prussia - a regional player into a great power - all employed Black men at their courts and in their armies. Through court performance, including processions and tournaments, as well as through artistic commissions, the Brandenburgian rulers adapted existing traditions of representing and displaying human difference and hierarchy for thei…
Typographia Botanica: Printing Nature in the Age of Linnaeus
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