Mercenaries of Knowledge

Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics

Fabien Montcher (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

346 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009340496 (ISBN)

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From Lisbon to Rome via the islands of the Gulf of Guinee and the sugar mills of Northern Brazil, this book explores the strategies and practices (e. g. bibliopolitics) that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of Late Renaissance politics, through the life of the Portuguese jurist-scholar, Vicente Nogueira (1586–1654).

From Lisbon to Rome via the Gulf of Guinea and the sugar mills of northern Brazil, this book explores the strategies and practices that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of late Renaissance politics. By tracing the life of the Portuguese jurist-scholar Vicente Nogueira (1586–1654) across diverse social, cultural, and pol-itical spaces, Fabien Montcher reveals a world of religious conﬂicts and imperial rivalries. Here, European agents developed the practice of 'bibliopolitics'– using local and international systems for buying and selling books and manuscripts to foster political communication and debate, and ultimately to negotiate their survival. Bibliopolitics fostered the advent of a generation of 'mercenaries of knowledge' whose stories constitute a key part of seventeenth-century social and cultural history. This book also demonstrates their crucial role in creating an inter-national and dynamic Republic of Letters with others who helped shape early modern intellectual and political worlds.

Fabien Montcher is Assistant Professor of History at Saint Louis University. His work on the social history of knowledge and politics has been supported by the UCLA Clark Library, the Huntington Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Introduction; Part I. Growing Up Under the Pax Hispanica; 1. Coming of Age as Mercenaries of Knowledge; 2. The Mercenary Republic; Part II. The Severing: Trial and Exile; 3. The Fabric of Dissent; 4. The Proving Grounds; Part III. Bibliopolitics and Conflict Management; 5. Mercenary Diplomacy; 6. Mercenary Bibliopolitics; Conclusion: Portraits from a Mercenary Age; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 235 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781009340496 / 9781009340496
Zustand	Neuware