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portada Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe (Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge)
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English
Pages
342
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781503642683
Edition No.
1

Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe (Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge)

Robert G. Morrison (Author) · Stanford University Press · Paperback

Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe (Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge) - Robert G. Morrison

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Synopsis "Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe (Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge)"

Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of Mehmed the Conqueror and Bayezid II greatly benefitted from knowledge coming out of Europe, merchants of knowledge--multilingual and transregional Jewish scholars--became an important bridge among the powers. With this book, Robert Morrison is the first to track the network of scholars who mediated exchanges in astronomy, astrology, Qabbalah, and philosophy. Their books, manuscripts, and acts of translation all held economic value, thus commercial and intellectual exchange commingled--knowledge became transactional as these merchants exchanged texts for more intellectual material and social capital. While parallels between medieval Islamic astronomy and the famous heliocentric arrangement posited by Copernicus are already known, Morrison reveals far deeper networks of intellectual exchange that extended well beyond theoretical astronomy and shows how religion, science, and philosophy, areas that will eventually develop into separate fields, were once interwoven. The Renaissance portrayed in Merchants of Knowledge is not, from the perspective of the Ottoman Muslim contacts of the Jewish merchants of knowledge, hegemonic. It's a Renaissance permeated by diversity, the cultural and political implications of which the West is only now waking up to.

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