Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe

Johannes Ljungberg is an Assistant Professor at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Privacy Studies, at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on religiously dissenting networks in the Nordic countries and privacy in urban spaces during the early modern period.Natacha Klein Käfer is an Assistant Professor at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Privacy Studies, at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the history of healing and issues of confidentiality between healers and patients as well as networks of knowledge in the early modern period.

• 1. Language, Settings, and Networks of Early Modern Private Conversations; Johannes Ljungberg and Natacha Klein Käfer.- Part I: Between Silence and Talking.- 2. Talking About Religion During Religious War: Gilles de Gouberville, Normandy, 1562; Virginia Reinburg.- 3. When Private Speech Goes Public: Libertinage, Crypto-Judaic Conversations, and the Private Literary World of Jean Fontanier, 1621; Adam Horsley.- 4. Talking Privately in Utopia: Ideals of Silence and Dissimulation in Smeek’s Krinke Kesmes (1708); Liam Benison.- Part II: Navigating Hierarchical Settings.- 5. “Alone amongst ourselves”: How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–97); Krisztina Péter.- 6. “We take care of our own”: Talking About ‘Disability’ in Early Modern Netherlandish Households; Barbara A. Kaminska.- 7. “So that I never fail to warn and exhort”: Pastoral Care and Private Conversation in a Seventeenth-Century Reformed Village; Markus Bardenheuer.- 8. “The secret sins that one commits by thought alone”: Confession as Private and Public in Seventeenth-Century France; Lars Cyril Nørgaard.- Part III: Intimate Conversations.- 9. Marital Conversations: Using Privacy to Negotiate Marital Conflicts in Adam Eyre’s Diary, 1647–1649; Katharina Simon.- 10. “Unnecessary Conversations”: Talking About Sex in the Early Modern Polish Village; Tomasz Wiślicz.- 11. Multimedia Conversations: Love and Lovesickness in Sixteenth-Century Italian Single-Sheet Prints; Alexandra Kocsis.- 12. Towards further studies of private conversations; Mette Birkedal Bruun, Johannes Ljungberg and Natacha Klein Käfer.