Early Modern Privacy
Sources and Approaches
Published on 16. December 2021
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-90-04-15291-5 (ISBN)
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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.
Contributors: Ivana Bicak, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Maarten Delbeke, Willem Frijhoff, Michael Green, Mia Korpiola, Mathieu Laflamme, Natacha Klein Kaefer, Hang Lin, Walter S. Melion, Helene Merlin-Kajman, Lars Cyril Norgaard, Anne Regent-Susini, Marian Rothstein, Thomas Max Safley, Valeria Viola, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Heide Wunder.
Contributors: Ivana Bicak, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Maarten Delbeke, Willem Frijhoff, Michael Green, Mia Korpiola, Mathieu Laflamme, Natacha Klein Kaefer, Hang Lin, Walter S. Melion, Helene Merlin-Kajman, Lars Cyril Norgaard, Anne Regent-Susini, Marian Rothstein, Thomas Max Safley, Valeria Viola, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Heide Wunder.
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
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821 gr
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978-90-04-15291-5 (9789004152915)
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Michael Green, PhD (2013, University of Groningen) is professor at the University of Lodz. He publishes widely on early modern education, religious minorities, and social networks, including The Huguenot Jean Rou (1638-1711): Scholar, Educator, Civil Servant (Honore Champion, 2015).
Lars Cyril Norgaard, PhD (2017, University of Copenhagen) is assistant professor at the Copenhagen Centre for Privacy Studies. His publications deal with the tension between religious seclusion and societal engagement and the ambiguous nature of pre-modern privacy.
Mette Birkedal Bruun, PhD (2000, Arhus University), dr.theol. (2017, University of Copenhagen) is professor of Church History and director of the Copenhagen Centre for Privacy Studies. She has published widely on medieval and early modern monastic culture and lay devotion.
Lars Cyril Norgaard, PhD (2017, University of Copenhagen) is assistant professor at the Copenhagen Centre for Privacy Studies. His publications deal with the tension between religious seclusion and societal engagement and the ambiguous nature of pre-modern privacy.
Mette Birkedal Bruun, PhD (2000, Arhus University), dr.theol. (2017, University of Copenhagen) is professor of Church History and director of the Copenhagen Centre for Privacy Studies. She has published widely on medieval and early modern monastic culture and lay devotion.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Past Privacy
?Lars Cyril Norgaard
2 Towards an Approach to Early Modern Privacy: The Retirement of the Great Conde
?Mette Birkedal Bruun
Part 1: Approaching Notions of Privacy and the Private
3 Considering 'Privacy' and Gender in Early Modern German-Speaking Countries
?Heide Wunder
4 'Prive' and 'Particulier' (and Other Words) in Seventeenth-Century France
?Helene Merlin-Kajman
5 How to Approach Privacy without Private Sources? Insights from the Franco-Dutch Network of the Eelkens Merchant Family around 1600
?Willem Frijhoff
6 Early Modern Swedish Law and Privacy: A Legal Right in Embryo
?Mia Korpiola
Part 2: Crossing the Thresholds of Privacy and the Private
7 The Moment of Communion
?Lee Palmer Wandel
8 How to Make Exemplarity with Secret Virtues: Funeral Sermons and Their Challenges in Early Modern France
?Anne Regent-Susini
9 Entering the Bedroom through the Judicial Archives: Sexual Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century Toulouse
?Mathieu Laflamme
10 Public and Private in Jewish Egodocuments of Amsterdam (ca. 1680-1830)
?Michael Green
Part 3: Secrecy, Knowledge, and Authority
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
?Thomas Max Safley
12 Chops and Chamber Pots: Satire of the Experimental Report in Seventeenth-Century England
?Ivana Bicak
13 Dynamics of Healer-Patient Confidentiality in Early Modern Witch Trials
?Natacha Klein Kaefer
14 Examination Essays, Paratext, and Confucian Orthodoxy: Negotiating the Public and Private in Knowledge Authority in Early Seventeenth-Century China
?Hang Lin
Part 4: Spaces and Places of Privacy and the Private
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
?Walter S. Melion
16 Privacy and Exemplarity in Gianlorenzo Bernini's Cornaro Chapel
?Maarten Delbeke
17 Making Private Public: Representing Private Devotion in an Early Modern Funeral Sermon
?Lars Cyril Norgaard
18 Secret Routes and Blurring Borders: The New Apartment of Giuseppe Pape di Valdina (Palermo, 1714-1742)
?Valeria Viola
19 What Lies between the Public and the Secret?
?Marian Rothstein
Index Nominum
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Past Privacy
?Lars Cyril Norgaard
2 Towards an Approach to Early Modern Privacy: The Retirement of the Great Conde
?Mette Birkedal Bruun
Part 1: Approaching Notions of Privacy and the Private
3 Considering 'Privacy' and Gender in Early Modern German-Speaking Countries
?Heide Wunder
4 'Prive' and 'Particulier' (and Other Words) in Seventeenth-Century France
?Helene Merlin-Kajman
5 How to Approach Privacy without Private Sources? Insights from the Franco-Dutch Network of the Eelkens Merchant Family around 1600
?Willem Frijhoff
6 Early Modern Swedish Law and Privacy: A Legal Right in Embryo
?Mia Korpiola
Part 2: Crossing the Thresholds of Privacy and the Private
7 The Moment of Communion
?Lee Palmer Wandel
8 How to Make Exemplarity with Secret Virtues: Funeral Sermons and Their Challenges in Early Modern France
?Anne Regent-Susini
9 Entering the Bedroom through the Judicial Archives: Sexual Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century Toulouse
?Mathieu Laflamme
10 Public and Private in Jewish Egodocuments of Amsterdam (ca. 1680-1830)
?Michael Green
Part 3: Secrecy, Knowledge, and Authority
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
?Thomas Max Safley
12 Chops and Chamber Pots: Satire of the Experimental Report in Seventeenth-Century England
?Ivana Bicak
13 Dynamics of Healer-Patient Confidentiality in Early Modern Witch Trials
?Natacha Klein Kaefer
14 Examination Essays, Paratext, and Confucian Orthodoxy: Negotiating the Public and Private in Knowledge Authority in Early Seventeenth-Century China
?Hang Lin
Part 4: Spaces and Places of Privacy and the Private
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
?Walter S. Melion
16 Privacy and Exemplarity in Gianlorenzo Bernini's Cornaro Chapel
?Maarten Delbeke
17 Making Private Public: Representing Private Devotion in an Early Modern Funeral Sermon
?Lars Cyril Norgaard
18 Secret Routes and Blurring Borders: The New Apartment of Giuseppe Pape di Valdina (Palermo, 1714-1742)
?Valeria Viola
19 What Lies between the Public and the Secret?
?Marian Rothstein
Index Nominum