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Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia (Hardcover)
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Private/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia (Hardcover)
Series: Cultures of Early Modern Europe
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This open access 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. The open
access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by
The Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen.
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