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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