Privacy is often considered a modern phenomenon. Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches challenges this view. This collection examines instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy, and opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies. Scholars of architectural history, art history, church history, economic history, gender history, history of law, history of literature, history of medicine, history of science, and social history detail how privacy and the private manifest within a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes. In doing so, they tackle the methodological challenges of early modern privacy, in all its rich, historical specificity.
Author(s): Michaël Green, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Mette Birkedal Bruun
Series: Intersections
Edition: 1
Publisher: Koninklijke Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 465
Tags: Privacy, Right Of: History; Privacy: Cross-cultural Studies
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Series Title
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Chapter 1 | Past Privacy
Chapter 2 | Towards an Approach to Early Modern Privacy: The Retirement of the Great Condé
Part 1 | Approaching Notions of Privacy and the Private
Chapter 3 | Considering ‘Privacy’ and Gender in Early Modern German-Speaking Countries
Chapter 4 | ‘Privé’ and ‘Particulier’ (and Other Words) in Seventeenth-Century France
Chapter 5 | How to Approach Privacy without Private Sources? Insights from the Franco-Dutch Network of the Eelkens Merchant Family around 1600
Chapter 6 | Early Modern Swedish Law and Privacy: A Legal Right in Embryo
Part 2 | Crossing the Thresholds of Privacy and the Private
Chapter 7 | The Moment of Communion
Chapter 8 | How to Make Exemplarity with Secret Virtues: Funeral Sermons and Their Challenges in Early Modern France
Chapter 9 | Entering the Bedroom through the Judicial Archives: Sexual Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century Toulouse
Chapter 10 | Public and Private in Jewish Egodocuments of Amsterdam (ca. 1680–1830)
Part 3 | Secrecy, Knowledge, and Authority
Chapter 11 | The Paradox of Secrecy: Merchant Families, Family Firms, and the Porous Boundaries between Private and Public Business Life in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Chapter 12 | Chops and Chamber Pots: Satire of the Experimental Report in Seventeenth-Century England
Chapter 13 | Dynamics of Healer-Patient Confidentiality in Early Modern Witch Trials
Chapter 14 | Examination Essays, Paratext, and Confucian Orthodoxy: Negotiating the Public and Private in Knowledge Authority in Early Seventeenth-Century China
Part 4 | Spaces and Places of Privacy and the Private
Chapter 15 | Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as Artisans of the Heart and Home in Manuscript MPM R 35 “Vita S. Joseph beatissimae Virginis sponsi” of ca. 1600
Chapter 16 | Privacy and Exemplarity in Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Cornaro Chapel
Chapter 17 | Making Private Public: Representing Private Devotion in an Early Modern Funeral Sermon
Chapter 18 | Secret Routes and Blurring Borders: The New Apartment of Giuseppe Papè di Valdina (Palermo, 1714–1742)
Chapter 19 | What Lies between the Public and the Secret?
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