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Paroles scellées: nature et langage en Turquie dans les Observations de Pierre Belon
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 2013
- pp. 21-33
- 10.1353/esp.2013.0050
- Article
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The result of years of travel in the Levant, Pierre Belon’s Observations (1553) demonstrates a humanist’s attempt to collect, update, and make sense of “scientific” as well as linguistic knowledge in the sixteenth century. It unveils the practice of and the experimentation with humanism by a French scholar who discovers that, in the Ottoman Empire, past and present coexist, nature and language collide but also collaborate. It reveals strong early modern French interests in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and “Turquie.”