The Renaissance of Peiresc
Aubin-Louis Millin and the Postrevolutionary Republic of Letters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4175532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Matthew Adkins (Queensborough Community College, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 675-700 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/595766 |
| PMID | 19334517 |
| OpenAlex | W2153068028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
This essay argues for the emergence of a cultural and epistemological divide between amateur savants and members of the Royal Academy of the Sciences in late Old Regime and revolutionary France and suggests that the amateur ideal rose in significance even as intellectual activity came to be increasingly centralized in the postrevolutionary era. At the crux of the tensions between the amateur ideal and the professionalizing reality in the immediate postrevolutionary period stood Aubin-Louis Millin and his journal, the Magasin Encyclopédique. The essay examines, in particular, the revival in the pages of the Magasin Encyclopédique of interest in Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, the seventeenth-century icon of an amateur ideal in which investigations in the natural sciences and scholarship were private, decentralized, often provincial activities. Although the sciences in the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras were often perceived as forward looking and dismissive of the past, this essay finds that a sentimental and nostalgic attachment to the past-to a myth of Peiresc-continued to play an important role in the identity of postrevolutionary men of letters
Aesthetics · Amateur · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Icon · Ideal (ethics · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · The Renaissance · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |