A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who worked in Ottoman Aleppo during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By reconstructing their careers, Simon Mills shows the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests.
A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who worked in Ottoman Aleppo during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By reconstructing their careers, Simon Mills shows the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Simon Mills is a Teaching Fellow in British and European History, 1500-1800 at Newcastle University. He received his PhD from Queen Mary University of London in 2009, and held a series of research fellowships at the Council for British Research in the Levant, Amman; the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge; and the Dahlem Humanities Centre, Freie Universität Berlin. Between 2014 and 2017, he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Kent. His interests lie in the religious, cultural, and intellectual history of early modern Britain and Europe, with a particular focus on the relationship between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, the histories of biblical and oriental studies, and the history of philosophy.
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Introduction Part I 1: 'Turky labours': From Oxford to Aleppo Part II: Building a library in seventeenth-century Syria 2: Edward Pococke in Aleppo 3: 'A rich treasure of manuscripts': Robert Huntington in Syria Part III: The making of an antiquarian 4: 'Factor to a worthy Principle' 5: The road to Jerusalem 6: Henry Maundrell and the making of A Journey Part IV 7: The English Reformation in an eastern key 8: Thomas Dawes in Aleppo
Introduction Part I 1: 'Turky labours': From Oxford to Aleppo Part II: Building a library in seventeenth-century Syria 2: Edward Pococke in Aleppo 3: 'A rich treasure of manuscripts': Robert Huntington in Syria Part III: The making of an antiquarian 4: 'Factor to a worthy Principle' 5: The road to Jerusalem 6: Henry Maundrell and the making of A Journey Part IV 7: The English Reformation in an eastern key 8: Thomas Dawes in Aleppo
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