Private/public in 18th-century Scandinavia / / edited by Sari Nauman and Helle Vogt.

• Superior document: Cultures of Early Modern Europe.
• TeilnehmendeR: Nauman, Sari,; Vogt, Helle,
• Place / Publishing House: London [England] : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2021; [London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Cultures of Early Modern Europe
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Includes index.

"This book looks at how, in the 17th and 18th centuries, a new loanword 'private' came into the Nordic languages. It had very little to do with the way we define the word today. Still, the introduction of it contributed to an emerging discourse that clearly distinguished between the public - usually identified with the state - and its opposite. Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia includes ten case studies analysed by leading Swedish and Danish researchers in the fields of history, law, archaeology, and theology. It considers whether the modern sense of the word 'private' can be found in material from the period. The questions are approached through a multitude of different sources, including parliamentary-records, letters, newspapers, architectural drawings, archaeological findings, records of probate courts, legislation, and court cases. The volume starts from the assumption that the private and the public neither were, nor are, fully separated, but instead continuously work in relation to each other. To study the private, it argues, we are compelled to pay special attention to the public and how private and public interacted. Privacy and protection of privacy remains of great topical interest and this book contributes to the present-day debate by examining neglected aspects of the history of the private before these concepts gained their modern meaning. In addition to investigating the history of these concepts in Scandinavia, the text offers a general theoretical reflection about what private was and is."-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Sari Nauman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Helle Vogt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) -- Prequel / Charlotte Christensen-Nugues (Lund University, Sweden) Part One - Private Communication -- 1. Private as an Economic Concept: Text Mining in Copenhagen Newspapers, 1749-1800 / Pernille Ulla Knudsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Helle Vogt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) -- 2. Private Communication in Swedish Pietist Investigations, 1722-28 / Johannes Ljungberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) -- 3. Protecting Society or Privacy? State Censorship and the Copenhagen Newspapers 1750-1780 / Jesper Jakobsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) -- 4. Private News: Private Letters as Sources for Foreign News in Denmark, 1750-1800 / Jørgen Muhrmann-Lund (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway) -- 5. Exposing the Private Body and its Immorality in Early Modern Copenhagen / Camilla Schjerning (Odense City Museums, Denmark) -- Part Two - Private Spaces -- 6. Spaces for Comfort, Seclusion and Privacy in Swedish 18th-Century Towns / Dag Lindström (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Göran Tagesson (National Historical Museums, Sweden) -- 7. In Death, Nothing is Private: Inventories as Sources to uncover the Private Life of the Deceased / Pernille Ulla Knudsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) -- 8. Public Order and the Implementation of Privacy in 18th-Century Copenhagen / Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) -- 9. In or Out? Thresholds in an Early Modern Peasant Rebellion / Sari Nauman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) -- Index