Early Modern Privacy: Sources And Approaches

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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. Cover Half Title Series Title Title Copyright 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? Index Nominum