Privacy in Early Modern Correspondences

Gigone, F. (Participant)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Period	6 May 2019 → 7 May 2019
Event type	Conference
Location	Copenhagen, DenmarkShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

Privacy
Correspondance
Early Modern

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Letters were the most important means of communication in Early Modern Europe. In written correspondence, individuals shared scholarly ideas, represented intimate experiences, planned artistic projects, challenged social conventions, and much more. In such exchanges, writers readily refer to their inner states and to their personal opinions, but always in a socially shared space of communication, defying any notion of a privacy untouched by the public. How do we examine Early Modern correspondences in a way that takes seriously individual aspects as well as social conventions? At the workshop Privacy in Early Modern Correspondences, a number of prominent international scholars join members of the Centre for Privacy Studies in tackling this methodological challenge. Focusing on individual letter writers, on specific correspondences, and other contexts of epistolary communication, we will examine aspects of Early Modern correspondences as they relate to the private and the public.