Overview
- Provides the first thorough assessment of how people in early modern Europe talked in private
- Develops new theoretical approaches to investigate the active creation of circumstances coded as private
- Draws on a range of disciplinary approaches to investigate conversations historically
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Between Silence And Talking
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Navigating Hierarchical Settings
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Intimate Conversations
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Epilogue
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About this book
This open access book provides a multifold exploration of how people in early modern Europe understood, conducted, and actively used private conversations. From sharing personal matters to discussing delicate secrets, all layers of early modern society had their motives for wanting to keep certain exchanges out of public eyes and ears, and ways of trying to achieve this. Detecting such instances in historical sources typically becomes a complex pursuit, full of subtle references that require creative approaches, especially when it comes to more informal practices. Yet, in a reading against the grain, different sources can offer us hints of how conversations took place in private.
The book consists of a historiographical and methodological introduction to the study of private conversations, followed by ten case studies from a variety of cities, villages, and countryside across early modern Europe. The concluding epilogue suggests some pathways to further explore the terrain of how people have talked in private in past societies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe
Book Subtitle: Talking in Everyday Life
Editors: Johannes Ljungberg, Natacha Klein Käfer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46630-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46629-8Published: 02 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46632-8Published: 02 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46630-4Published: 01 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 350
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Social History, Cultural History