Privacy in Early Modern Saxony - Perspectives on Architecture, Culture, Health, Law, and Religion

About the author

Mette Biredal Bruun, Natacha Klein Käfer, Paolo Astorri, Søren Frank Jensen, University of Copenhagen.

Summary

Concerns over privacy grow in our society. Understanding the historical roots of the phenomenon becomes more and more necessary to navigate our contemporary struggles with availability and control of personal information. When we ponder what people of the past valued and aimed to protect and what they considered threatening and needing uncovering, we achieve a broader perspective of the importance of privacy in everyday life. The early modern period, in particular, was a period in which many views and experiences of privacy were negotiated and consolidated into more recognisable feelings and norms in different layers of society.
This volume will focus on Saxony, as it is a great example to explore how privacy was created and negotiated in the early modern period. Throughout the sixteenth century, Saxony rose to prominence in the broader European context through the influence of its Electors. Saxony is an emblematic context to explore notions of privacy in the early modern period, as the region underwent a range of transformations – religious, political, legal, and cultural – that reconfigured the thresholds between the private and the public.
The main goals of this volume are: to put Saxony on the map of early modern studies of privacy by bringing forth the region’s contribution to political, cultural, scientific, religious, and legal developments; to challenge preconceived notions of privacy in the early modern German context by providing new analytical tools to analyse both well-known and novel sources; to inaugurate and instigate further the research of early modern privacy in regional studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Paolo Astorri (Editor), Mette Birkedal Bruun (Editor), Søren Frank Jensen et al (Editor), Søren Frank Jensen (Editor), Natacha Klein Käfer (Editor), Natalie Patricia Körner (Editor)
• Publisher: Oldenbourg
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2024
• EAN: 9783111263847
• ISBN: 978-3-11-126384-7
• No. of pages: 194
• Weight: 407 g
• Illustrations: 6 b/w and 7 col. ill.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Sachsen, Geschichte Europas, History, European History, Europäische Geschichte: Reformation, Reformationsgeschichte, Social & cultural history, Saxony, History: earliest times to present day, sächsische Geschichte, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, HIS014000 HISTORY / Europe / Germany, HIS054000 HISTORY / Social History, HIS037020 HISTORY / Renaissance, HIS037040 HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, Reformation History, Early Modern Court, historical privacy