Early Modern Privacy

Michaël 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 (Honoré Champion, 2015).Lars Cyril Nørgaard, 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.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors1 Past PrivacyLars Cyril Nørgaard2 Towards an Approach to Early Modern Privacy: The Retirement of the Great CondéMette Birkedal BruunPart 1: Approaching Notions of Privacy and the Private3 Considering ‘Privacy’ and Gender in Early Modern German-Speaking CountriesHeide Wunder4 ‘Privé’ and ‘Particulier’ (and Other Words) in Seventeenth-Century FranceHélène Merlin-Kajman5 How to Approach Privacy without Private Sources? Insights from the Franco-Dutch Network of the Eelkens Merchant Family around 1600Willem Frijhoff6 Early Modern Swedish Law and Privacy: A Legal Right in EmbryoMia KorpiolaPart 2: Crossing the Thresholds of Privacy and the Private7 The Moment of CommunionLee Palmer Wandel8 How to Make Exemplarity with Secret Virtues: Funeral Sermons and Their Challenges in Early Modern FranceAnne Régent-Susini9 Entering the Bedroom through the Judicial Archives: Sexual Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century ToulouseMathieu Laflamme10 Public and Private in Jewish Egodocuments of Amsterdam (ca. 1680–1830)Michaël GreenPart 3: Secrecy, Knowledge, and Authority11 The Paradox of Secrecy: Merchant Families, Family Firms, and the Porous Boundaries between Private and Public Business Life in Late Medieval and Early Modern EuropeThomas Max Safley12 Chops and Chamber Pots: Satire of the Experimental Report in Seventeenth-Century EnglandIvana Bičak13 Dynamics of Healer-Patient Confidentiality in Early Modern Witch TrialsNatacha Klein Käfer14 Examination Essays, Paratext, and Confucian Orthodoxy: Negotiating the Public and Private in Knowledge Authority in Early Seventeenth-Century ChinaHang LinPart 4: Spaces and Places of Privacy and the Private15 Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as Artisans of the Heart and Home in Manuscript MPM R 35 “Vita S. Joseph beatissimae Virginis sponsi” of ca. 1600Walter S. Melion16 Privacy and Exemplarity in Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Cornaro ChapelMaarten Delbeke17 Making Private Public: Representing Private Devotion in an Early Modern Funeral SermonLars Cyril Nørgaard18 Secret Routes and Blurring Borders: The New Apartment of Giuseppe Papè di Valdina (Palermo, 1714–1742)Valeria Viola19 What Lies between the Public and the Secret?Marian RothsteinIndex Nominum