Table Of ContentEarly Modern Privacy
Intersections
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN CULTURE
General Editor
Karl A.E. Enenkel (Chair of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
e-mail: kenen_01@uni_muenster.de)
Editorial Board
W. van Anrooij (University of Leiden)
W. de Boer (Miami University)
Chr. Göttler (University of Bern)
J.L. de Jong (University of Groningen)
W.S. Melion (Emory University)
R. Seidel (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
P.J. Smith (University of Leiden)
J. Thompson (Queen’s University Belfast)
A. Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin)
C. Zittel (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice / University of Stuttgart)
C. Zwierlein (Freie Universität Berlin)
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Early Modern Privacy
Sources and Approaches
Edited by
Michaël Green
Lars Cyril Nørgaard
Mette Birkedal Bruun
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations x
Notes on the Editors xvii
Notes on the Contributors xviii
1 Past Privacy 1
Lars Cyril Nørgaard
2 Towards an Approach to Early Modern Privacy: The Retirement of the
Great Condé 12
Mette Birkedal Bruun
part 1
Approaching Notions of Privacy and the Private
3 Considering ‘Privacy’ and Gender in Early Modern
German-Speaking Countries 63
Heide Wunder
4 ‘Privé’ and ‘Particulier’ (and Other Words) in
Seventeenth-Century France 79
Hélène Merlin-Kajman
5 How to Approach Privacy without Private Sources? Insights
from the Franco-Dutch Network of the Eelkens Merchant Family
around 1600 105
Willem Frijhoff
6 Early Modern Swedish Law and Privacy: A Legal Right in Embryo 135
Mia Korpiola
vi Contents
part 2
Crossing the Thresholds of Privacy and the Private
7 The Moment of Communion 159
Lee Palmer Wandel
8 How to Make Exemplarity with Secret Virtues: Funeral Sermons and
Their Challenges in Early Modern France 179
Anne Régent-Susini
9 Entering the Bedroom through the Judicial Archives: Sexual Intimacy in
Eighteenth-Century Toulouse 194
Mathieu Laflamme
10 Public and Private in Jewish Egodocuments of Amsterdam
(ca. 1680–1830) 213
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 245
Thomas Max Safley
12 Chops and Chamber Pots: Satire of the Experimental Report in
Seventeenth-Century England 266
Ivana Bičak
13 Dynamics of Healer-Patient Confidentiality in Early Modern
Witch Trials 281
Natacha Klein Käfer
14 Examination Essays, Paratext, and Confucian Orthodoxy:
Negotiating the Public and Private in Knowledge Authority in
Early Seventeenth-Century China 297
Hang Lin
Contents vii
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 317
Walter S. Melion
16 Privacy and Exemplarity in Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Cornaro Chapel 364
Maarten Delbeke
17 Making Private Public: Representing Private Devotion in an Early
Modern Funeral Sermon 378
Lars Cyril Nørgaard
18 Secret Routes and Blurring Borders: The New Apartment of Giuseppe
Papè di Valdina (Palermo, 1714–1742) 401
Valeria Viola
19 What Lies between the Public and the Secret? 423
Marian Rothstein
Index Nominum 439
Acknowledgements
This volume offers a multidisciplinary collection of studies that analyse
early modern notions and spaces of privacy. In doing so, it investigates the
historiographical implications of such an analysis. The volume has been
conceptualised and collated under the auspices of the Centre for Privacy
Studies (PRIVACY), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation
(DNRF 138), established in September 2017 and housed at the Faculty of
Theology, University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Royal Danish
Academy ‒ Architecture, Design, Conservation. It springs from the interdis-
ciplinary research at PRIVACY, and the editors’ work has been inspired and
energised by our colleagues in the PRIVACY research team. We would like to
thank Head of Administration Maj Riis Poulsen, assistant Thea Kjærulff Torp,
and postdoctoral researcher Natália da Silva Perez, who, together with Michaël
Green, oversaw the planning and delivery of a three-day conference at the
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen in April 2019.
Our days there laid the groundwork for this volume, and we extend our thanks
to the staff at the Royal Danish Academy and to all the scholars who gener-
ously shared their expertise in presentations and discussions: Ivana Bičak,
Maarten Delbeke, Willem Frijhoff, Francesca Iurlaro, Christine Jeanneret,
Natacha Klein Käfer, Pernille Ulla Knudsen, Mia Korpiola, Mathieu Laflamme,
Hang Lin, Dag Lindström, Walter S. Melion, Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Anne
Régent-Susini, Marian Rothstein, Thomas Max Safley, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde,
Göran Tagesson, Ditlev Tamm, Valeria Viola, and Lee Palmer Wandel. Special
thanks are extended to Adam Horsley, David Lebovitch Dahl, and Ivana Bičak,
who have assisted us in the editorial process.
Our sincere thanks are due to the authors for their willingness to engage with
a slippery topic and for fruitful and committed academic interactions in the
process. Finally, we express our gratitude to the anonymous peer reviewer and
the editorial board of Intersections, especially to series editor Karl A.E. Enenkel
for his support and helpful suggestions.
