Privacy in Early Modern Egodocuments : Personal Lives in Historical Perspective /

Privacy in Early Modern Egodocuments : Personal Lives in Historical Perspective /

In early modern Europe, literacy was on the rise, and it became possible to reflect on one's own life and secrets in private notes, letters to family and friends, as well as dairies, memoirs, and travelogues. Privacy in Early Modern Egodocuments: Personal Lives in Historical Perspective combine...

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Other Authors: Green, Michael (Editor), Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna (Editor), Orzeł, Joanna (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.
Studies in the History of Privacy ; 1.

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Early Modern History.
History.
Intellectual History.

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Call Number: NA105

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword to the Series
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Privacy, Private Lives, and Egodocumental Research
  • Michael Green, Joanna Orzeł and Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
  • 1 Looking for Early Modern Egodocuments as Sources for Privacy Research in the Archives: Some Observations
  • Michael Green
  • 2 Intimacy as Mutual Knowledge: an Exploration of Privacy through French Personal Writings during the Early Modern Period
  • François-Joseph Ruggiu
  • 3 The Making of a Hero: Virginia Narratives of John Smith ( bap . 158, d. 1631) and the Subtle Use of Privacy as a Tool to Promote Himself
  • Jakub Basista
  • 4 (De)Constructing Privacy, Describing Diplomatic Ties: Representations of Elizabeth I in Central European Egodocuments
  • Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
  • 5 Lawsuits and Egodocuments on Sexual Intimacy in Early Modern Bilbao
  • Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi
  • 6 "Emotions" of a Parent during the Struggles of War: Lew Sapieha's Private Relationship with His Son Jan Stanisław in Letters from 1626
  • Aleksandra Ziober
  • 7 The Privacy of Princesses and Princes: Relations between Members of the Saxon House of Wettin in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
  • Katarzyna Kuras
  • 8 Privacy and Publicity in Early Modern Alba Amicorum from Central Europe
  • Robert T. Tomczak
  • 9 Privacy in the Last Will Acts of Vilnius Bourgeois Women from the First Half of the Eighteenth Century: Study of Selected Cases
  • Bernadetta Manyś
  • 1 The Emergence of Privacy: Motivations and Self-Expression in Polish Noblewomen's Diaries and Memoirs in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
  • Joanna Orzeł
  • 11 Bluestockings and Their Spaces of Privacy in Conversation and in Writing: the Case of Mary Hamilton (1756-1816)
  • Nataliia Voloshkova
  • 12 Public Duty and Private Life in Michael Conrad von Heydendorff's (173-1821) Autobiography and Georg Michael Gottlieb von Herrmann's (1737-187) Curriculum Vitae
  • András Bándi
  • Index locorum
  • Index nominum.