Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760

by Simon Mills

A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reconstructing the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, Simon Mills investigates the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests: the study of Middle-Eastern languages;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198840330
• ISBN13: 9780198840336
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"