Mercenaries of Knowledge - Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics

"From Lisbon to Rome via the islands of the Gulf of Guinee and the sugar mills of Northern Brazil, this book explores the strategies and practices (e. g. bibliopolitics) that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of Late Renaissance politics, through the life of the Portuguese jurist-scholar, Vicente Nogueira (1586-1654)"--

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Growing Up Under the Pax Hispanica; 1. Coming of Age as Mercenaries of Knowledge; 2. The Mercenary Republic; Part II. The Severing: Trial and Exile; 3. The Fabric of Dissent; 4. The Proving Grounds; Part III. Bibliopolitics and Conflict Management; 5. Mercenary Diplomacy; 6. Mercenary Bibliopolitics; Conclusion: Portraits from a Mercenary Age; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Fabien Montcher is Assistant Professor of History at Saint Louis University. His work on the social history of knowledge and politics has been supported by the UCLA Clark Library, the Huntington Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Product details

• Authors: Fabien Montcher
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009340489
• ISBN: 978-1-009-34048-9
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Portugal, Europe, European History, Brazil, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, General & world history, Politics & government, Lisbon, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, Portuguese, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, C 1600 To C 1700, European history: Renaissance, Early 17th century c 1600 to c 1650, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Portugal, Brazil: North Region