Download or read book The Republic of Letters and the Levant written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles analyses the interests and experiences in the Levant of a number of leading western scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with an emphasis on the networks of learned friends throughout Europe with whom they corresponded.