Introduction -- PART I: FROM OXFORD TO ALEPPO -- 1: 'Turky Labours' -- PART II: BUILDING A LIBRARY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SYRIA -- 2: Edward Pococke in Aleppo -- 3: 'A Rich Treasure of Manuscripts': Robert Huntington in Syria -- PART III: THE MAKING OF AN ANTIQUARIAN -- 4: 'Factor to a Worthy Principle' -- 5: The Road to Jerusalem -- 6: Henry Maundrell and the Making of A Journey -- PART IV: MISSIONS -- 7: The English Reformation in an Eastern Key -- 8: Thomas Dawes in Aleppo -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
'A Commerce of Knowledge' tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who worked in Ottoman Aleppo during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By reconstructing their careers, Simon Mills shows the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience
Specialized
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 18, 2020)
