{"product_id":"early-modern-privacy-sources-and-approaches-9789004152915","title":"Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrivacy 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 Bičak, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Maarten Delbeke, Willem Frijhoff, Michael Green, Mia Korpiola, Mathieu Laflamme, Natacha Klein Käfer, Hang Lin, Walter S. Melion, Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Anne Régent-Susini, Marian Rothstein, Thomas Max Safley, Valeria Viola, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Heide Wunder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Notes on the Editors  Notes on the Contributors    1 Past Privacy   Lars Cyril Nørgaard    2 Towards an Approach to Early Modern Privacy: The Retirement of the Great Condé   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 ‘Privé’ and ‘Particulier’ (and Other Words) in Seventeenth-Century France   Hélène 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 Régent-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)   Michaël 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 Bičak    13 Dynamics of Healer-Patient Confidentiality in Early Modern Witch Trials   Natacha Klein Käfer    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 Nørgaard    18 Secret Routes and Blurring Borders: The New Apartment of Giuseppe Papè di Valdina (Palermo, 1714–1742)   Valeria Viola    19 What Lies between the Public and the Secret?   Marian Rothstein    Index Nominum","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210604077399,"sku":"9789004152915","price":143.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/early-modern-privacy-sources-and-approaches-9789004152915","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}