- Title Pages
- The Oxford History Of Historical Writing
- [UNTITLED]
- General Editor’s Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- List of Maps
- Notes on the Contributors
- Advisory Board
- Editors’ Introduction
- Chapter 1 Chinese Official Historical Writing under the Ming and Qing
- Chapter 2 The Historical Writing of Qing Imperial Expansion
- Chapter 3 Private Historiography in Late Imperial China
- Chapter 4 A Social History of Japanese Historical Writing
- Chapter 5 Writing History in Pre-Modern Korea
- Chapter 6 Southeast Asian Historical Writing
- Chapter 7 Indo-Persian Historical Thoughts and Writings
- Chapter 8 Persian Historical Writing under the Safavids (1501–1722/36)
- Chapter 9 Ottoman Historical Writing
- Chapter 10 Islamic Scholarship and Understanding History in West Africa before 1800
- Chapter 11 Philology and History
- Chapter 12 Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc
- Chapter 13 History, Myth, and Fiction
- Chapter 14 Historical Writing in Russia and Ukraine
- Chapter 15 Austria, the Habsburgs, and Historical Writing in Central Europe
- Chapter 16 German Historical Writing from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
- Chapter 17 Italian Renaissance Historical Narrative
- Chapter 18 Italian Historical Writing, 1680–1800
- Chapter 19 History and Historians in France, from the Great Italian Wars to the Death of Louis XIV
- Chapter 20 The Historical Thought of the French <i>Philosophes</i>
- Chapter 21 Writing Official History in Spain
- Chapter 22 Historical Writing in Scandinavia
- Chapter 23 Historical Writing in Britain from the Late Middle Ages to the Eve of Enlightenment
- Chapter 24 Scottish Historical Writing of the Enlightenment
- Chapter 25 English Enlightenment Histories, 1750–<i>c.</i>1815
- Chapter 26 European Historiography on the East
- Chapter 27 A New History for a ‘New World’
- Chapter 28 Mesoamerican History
- Chapter 29 Alphabetical Writing in Mesoamerican Historiography
- Chapter 30 Inca Historical Forms
- Chapter 31 Historical Writing about Brazil, 1500–1800
- Chapter 32 Spanish American Colonial Historiography
- Chapter 33 Historical Writing in Colonial and Revolutionary America
- Index
Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc
Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc
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- (p.244) Chapter 12 Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc
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- The Oxford History of Historical Writing
- Author(s):
Peter N. Miller
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- Oxford University Press
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 of Cardinal Alexander Farnese, including Pirro Ligorio and Onofrio Panvinio. Their breakthrough, towards an intensive engagement with ancient visual and material culture in its fullest extent, was picked up in the next generation by the Frenchman Peiresc and his colleagues in the circle of Cardinal Francesco Barberini. With Peiresc it is possible to see the outlines of that ‘broader’ history of European antiquarianism, as it intersects with natural history, medicine, and astronomy, as well as oriental languages and literature.
Keywords: antiquarianism, history, past, Poggio Bracciolini, Flavio Biondo, Cyriac of Ancona, Ligorio, Onofrio Panvinio
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- Title Pages
- The Oxford History Of Historical Writing
- [UNTITLED]
- General Editor’s Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- List of Maps
- Notes on the Contributors
- Advisory Board
- Editors’ Introduction
- Chapter 1 Chinese Official Historical Writing under the Ming and Qing
- Chapter 2 The Historical Writing of Qing Imperial Expansion
- Chapter 3 Private Historiography in Late Imperial China
- Chapter 4 A Social History of Japanese Historical Writing
- Chapter 5 Writing History in Pre-Modern Korea
- Chapter 6 Southeast Asian Historical Writing
- Chapter 7 Indo-Persian Historical Thoughts and Writings
- Chapter 8 Persian Historical Writing under the Safavids (1501–1722/36)
- Chapter 9 Ottoman Historical Writing
- Chapter 10 Islamic Scholarship and Understanding History in West Africa before 1800
- Chapter 11 Philology and History
- Chapter 12 Major Trends in European Antiquarianism, Petrarch to Peiresc
- Chapter 13 History, Myth, and Fiction
- Chapter 14 Historical Writing in Russia and Ukraine
- Chapter 15 Austria, the Habsburgs, and Historical Writing in Central Europe
- Chapter 16 German Historical Writing from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
- Chapter 17 Italian Renaissance Historical Narrative
- Chapter 18 Italian Historical Writing, 1680–1800
- Chapter 19 History and Historians in France, from the Great Italian Wars to the Death of Louis XIV
- Chapter 20 The Historical Thought of the French <i>Philosophes</i>
- Chapter 21 Writing Official History in Spain
- Chapter 22 Historical Writing in Scandinavia
- Chapter 23 Historical Writing in Britain from the Late Middle Ages to the Eve of Enlightenment
- Chapter 24 Scottish Historical Writing of the Enlightenment
- Chapter 25 English Enlightenment Histories, 1750–<i>c.</i>1815
- Chapter 26 European Historiography on the East
- Chapter 27 A New History for a ‘New World’
- Chapter 28 Mesoamerican History
- Chapter 29 Alphabetical Writing in Mesoamerican Historiography
- Chapter 30 Inca Historical Forms
- Chapter 31 Historical Writing about Brazil, 1500–1800
- Chapter 32 Spanish American Colonial Historiography
- Chapter 33 Historical Writing in Colonial and Revolutionary America
- Index