A Commerce of Knowledge
A Commerce of Knowledge
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知识贸易
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10.1093/oso/9780198840336.001.0001
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2020
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S. Mills
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S. Mills
《知识的商业：1600 - 1760年英国和奥斯曼帝国之间的贸易、宗教和学术》讲述了17世纪和18世纪在叙利亚阿勒颇为英国黎凡特公司服务的三代英国国教牧师的故事。这本书重建了主人公在奥斯曼帝国阿勒颇国际大都市的职业生涯，并揭示了英国商业和外交扩张与英国学术和传教兴趣之间的联系：中东语言的研究；对圣经和希腊罗马古物的探索；以及阿拉伯语新教文学的早期传播。早期现代东方学通常被认为是学术史上的一个插曲。通过将焦点转移到阿勒颇，《知识的商业》将人们的注意力转移到看似冷漠的早期现代大学世界与商业和外交生活领域之间的联系上，将英国出现的新型语言学和考古学研究追溯到他们在奥斯曼帝国遇到的牧师与文士、书商、牧师、拉比和酋长之间的一系列现实世界的相遇。这本书将主人公的职业生涯置于新教和天主教欧洲更广泛发展的背景下，展示了英国学术的制度化，以及后来英国对东方基督教会的影响，是如何与在黎凡特建立商业立足点的国际斗争联系在一起的。然后它认为，这些联系将持续下去，直到18世纪下半叶英国商业和帝国利益向印度次大陆转移，在国内培养了新的思想生活潮流。
A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600–1760 tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Aleppo, Syria, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book reconstructs the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, and brings to light 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 draws attention to connections between the seemingly aloof world of the early modern university and spheres of commercial and diplomatic life, 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 whom they encountered in the Ottoman Empire. Setting the careers of its protagonists against a background of broader developments across Protestant and Catholic Europe, the book 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. It then 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.