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Early modern privacy : sources and approaches
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ISBN: 9004153071 9004152911 Year: 2022 Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts ; Leiden, Netherlands : Brill,

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Privacy is often viewed as a modern phenomenon. Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches challenges this view. This collection examines instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy, and opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies. Scholars of architectural history, art history, church history, economic history, gender history, history of law, history of literature, history of medicine, history of science, and social history detail how privacy and the private manifest within a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes. In doing so, they tackle the methodological challenges of early modern privacy, in all its rich, historical specificity. Contributors include Ivana Bičak, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Maarten Delbeke, Willem Frijhoff, Michael Green, Mia Korpiola, Mathieu Laflamme, Natacha Klein Käfer, Hang Lin, Walter S. Melion, Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Anne Régent-Susini, Marian Rothstein, Thomas Max Safley, Valeria Viola, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Heide Wunder.


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Notions of Privacy at Early Modern European Courts : Reassessing the Public and Private Divide, 1400-1800.
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ISBN: 9789048555154 9048555159 9463720073 Year: 2024 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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Grand, extravagant, magnificent, scandalous, corrupt, political, personal, fractious; these are terms often associated with the medieval and early modern courts. Moreover, the court constituted a forceful nexus in the social world, which was central to the legitimacy and authority of rulership. As such, courts shaped European politics and culture: architecture, art, fashion, patronage, and cultural exchanges were integral to the spectacle of European courts. Researchers have convincingly emphasised the public nature of courtly events, procedures, and ceremonies. Nevertheless, court life also involved pockets of privacy, which have yet to be systematically addressed. This edited collection addresses this lacuna and offers interpretations that urge us to reassesses the public nature of European courts. Thus, the proposed publication will fertilise the grounds for a discussion of the past and future of court studies. Indeed, the contributions make us reconsider present-day understandings of privacy as a stable and uncontestable notion.


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« Toute la cour était étonnée » : Madame de Maintenon ou l’ambition politique au féminin

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Le fabuleux destin de Mme de Maintenon n’a pas échappé à ses contemporains pas plus qu’à ses biographes. Par sa réussite sociale inouïe, par le projet éducatif de Saint-Cyr, par les nombreux textes conservés (correspondance, théâtre pédagogique, entretiens, instructions, carnets secrets…), Mme de Maintenon se révèle une personnalité d’exception et une femme d’influence dont le sillage historique a durablement marqué l’imaginaire français et continue de fasciner. Sans espérer percer le secret qu’elle a patiemment construit autour d’elle, cet ouvrage tente, en revalorisant en Mme de Maintenon la femme politique comme la femme de lettres, d’en circonscrire les limites. Il s’inscrit ainsi dans le mouvement actuel pour faire sortir les femmes de l’ombre (et parfois de l’invisibilité) où l’histoire les a souvent tenues.

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