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This volume investigates the origins of one of the most important notions of contemporary society: privacy. Based on case studies from the early modern Low Countries, privacy is tackled from various historical perspectives: social and cultural history, and the history of art and architecture.The Dutch Republic is well known for its financial success, which went hand in hand with the development of a distinguished bourgeois culture and religious toleration. The accumulation of wealth among the urban population led to changes in various spheres, from daily life to art. Privacy, as a concept, started to develop in this period. Indeed, new ideas about housing with the invention of corridors, separate rooms that could be locked, and the separation of the ‘common’ and the ‘private’ space, all illustrate the growing importance of privacy in this geographical area. This volume traces perspectives on early modern privacy and private life based on primary sources in several domains: letters, diaries, and poems; genre painting in art; communal life as illustrated by the Jewish community; and finally, the homes of the Dutch elite.The essays in this volume make a key contribution to the emergence of early modern privacy studies as a research field, and to the ongoing discussion of privacy in the Low Countries. Equally, these case studies can serve as models for the analysis of privacy in other European contexts.

Sociology of culture --- Human rights --- History of the Netherlands --- privacy --- private [general concept] --- anno 1500-1799 --- Privacy --- Families --- Manners and customs --- Architecture, Domestic --- Personal space --- Room layout (Dwellings) --- History.

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This book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of "space" and "place", which are here understood as being shaped, structured, and imbued with meaning through both social and discursive solitary practices such as reading, writing, studying, meditating, and praying. Individual chapters investigate the imageries and imaginaries of outdoor and indoor spaces and places associated with solitude and its practices and examine the ways in which the space of solitude was conceived of, imagined, and represented in the arts and in literature, from about 1300 to about 1800. Contributors include Oskar Bätschmann, Carla Benzan, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Dominic E. Delarue, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Christine Göttler, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christiane J. Hessler, Walter S. Melion, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bernd Roling, Paul Smith, Marie Theres Stauffer, Arnold A. Witte, and Steffen Zierholz.

eenzaamheid (kunst) --- History of civilization --- Art --- Literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Solitude in art --- Solitude in literature --- Arts, Medieval --- Arts, Modern --- Themes, motives --- Comparative literature --- Psychological study of literature --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1799 --- Arts, Medieval - Themes, motives --- Arts, Modern - Themes, motives --- Solitude --- Solitude in art. --- Solitude in literature. --- Seclusion --- Loneliness --- Privacy --- History.