Locating Privacy in Tudor London asks new questions about where
private life was lived in the early modern period, about where
evidence of it has been preserved, and about how progressive and
coherent its history can be said to have been. The Renaissance and
the Reformation are generally taken to have produced significant
advances in individuality, subjectivity, and interiority,
especially among the elite, but this study of middling-sort culture
shows privacy to have been an object of suspicion, of competing
priorities, and of compulsory betrayals. The institutional archives
of civic governance, livery companies, parish churches, and
ecclesiastical courts reveal the degree to which society organized
itself around principles of preventing privacy, as a condition of
order. Also represented in the discussion are such material
artefacts as domestic buildings and household furnishings, which
were routinely experienced as collective and monitory agents rather
than spheres of exclusivity and self-expression. In 'everyday'
life, it is argued, economic motivations were of more urgent
concern than the political paradigms that have usually informed our
understanding of the Renaissance. Locating Privacy pursues the case
study of Alice Barnham (1523-1604), a previously unknown
merchant-class woman, subject of one of the earliest family group
paintings from England. Her story is touched by many of the
changes-in social structure, religion, the built environment, the
spread of literacy, and the history of privacy-that define the
sixteenth century. The book is of interest to literary, social,
cultural, and architectural historians, to historians of the
Reformation and of London, and to historians of gender and women's
studies.
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