Description: Commerce of Knowledge : Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1, Hardcover by Mills, Simon, ISBN 0198840330, ISBN-13 9780198840336, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reconstructing the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, Simon Mills
investigates the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests: the study of Middle-Eastern languages; the exploration of biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities; and the early dissemination of Protestant literature in Arabic. Early modern
Orientalism is usually conceived as an episode in the history of scholarship. By shifting the focus to Aleppo, A Commerce of Knowledge brings to light the connections between the seemingly separate worlds, tracing the emergence of new kinds of philological and archaeological enquiry in England back
to a series of real-world encounters between the chaplains and the scribes, booksellers, priests, rabbis, and sheikhs they encountered in the Ottoman Empire. Setting the careers of its protagonists against a background of broader developments across Protestant and Catholic Europe, Mills shows how
the institutionalization of English scholarship, and the later English attempt to influence the Eastern Christian churches, were bound up with the international struggle to establish a commercial foothold in the Levant. He argues that these connections would endure until the shift of British
commercial and imperial interests to the Indian subcontinent in the second half of the eighteenth century fostered new currents of intellectual life at home.
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Book Title: Commerce of Knowledge : Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between
Number of Pages: 354 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Commerce of Knowledge : Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: International Relations / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / General
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 24.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Simon Mills
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
