Información General

• Autores: Michael Green (coord.), Joanna Orzel (coord.), Anna Kowalcze Pawlik (coord.)
• Editores: Brill
• Año de publicación: 2026
• Colecciones: Studies in the History of Privacy, 1
• País: Países Bajos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-90-04-74984-9, 978-90-04-69310-4
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Resumen

• 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 diaries, memoirs, and travelogues. Privacy in Early Modern Egodocuments: Personal Lives in Historical Perspective combines historical research with an analysis of personal narratives from Eastern, Central, and Western Europe (also in the global context) to discuss what privacy meant at a time of political and social turmoil. The contributions explore personal writings by elite figures, as well as non-elite groups and marginalised voices, in a detective-like fashion, bringing into focus narratives that have long been overlooked in traditional historical studies. The authors offer insights into the evolution of the concept of privacy as well as the use of egodocuments as a vital resource for understanding individual and collective memory, particularly as shaped by the region's dynamic history.

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Listado de artículos

• • Privacy, Private Lives, and Egodocumental Research

    Michael Green, Joanna Orzel, Anna Kowalcze Pawlik

    págs. 1-17

    

  • Looking for early modern egodocuments as sources for privacy research in the archives: Some observations

    Michael Green

    págs. 18-39

    

  • Intimacy as mutual knowledge: An exploration of privacy through french personal writings during the early modern period

    François Joseph Ruggiu

    • Resumen

    págs. 40-68

    

  • The making of a hero: Virginia narratives of John Smith (bap. 1580, d. 1631) and the subtle use of privacy as a tool to promote himself

    Jakub Basista

    págs. 69-91

    

  • (De)constructing privacy, describing diplomatic ties: Representations of Elizabeth I in Central European Egodocuments

    Anna Kowalcze Pawlik

    págs. 92-116

    

  • Lawsuits and egodocuments on sexual intimacy in Early modern Bilbao

    Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi

    • Resumen
    • Texto completo

    págs. 117-133

    

  • 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

    págs. 134-152

    

  • The privacy of princesses and princes: Relations between members of the Saxon house of Wettin in the mid-eighteenth century

    Katarzyna Kuras

    págs. 153-175

    

  • Privacy and publicity in Early Modern Alba Amicorum from Central Europe

    Robert T. Tomczak

    págs. 176-196

    

  • Privacy in the Last Will Acts of Vilnius Bourgeois Women from the first half of the Eighteenth Century: Study of selected cases

    Bernadetta Manyś

    págs. 197-218

    

  • The emergence of privacy: Motivations and self-expression in Polish noble women’s diaries and memoirs in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

    Joanna Orzel

    págs. 219-240

    

  • Bluestockings and their spaces of privacy in conversation and in writing: the Case of Mary Hamilton (1756–1816)

    Nataliia Voloshkova

    págs. 241-258

    

  • Public Duty and Private Life in Michael Conrad von Heydendorff (1730–1821)’s Autobiography and Georg Michael Gottlieb von Herrmann (1737–1807)’s Curriculum Vitae

    András Bándi

    págs. 259-286