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dc.contributor.editorNauman, Sari
dc.contributor.editorVogt, Helle
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-18T13:08:09Z
dc.date.available2022-01-18T13:08:09Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20220118_9781350224902_22
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52490
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCultures of Early Modern Europe
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present dayen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC9 History of ideasen_US
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherEuropean History (History)
dc.subject.otherEarly Modern History (History)
dc.subject.otherPolitical History (History)
dc.titlePrivate/Public in 18th-Century Scandinavia
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781350224926
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b
oapen.relation.isbn9781350224902
oapen.relation.isbn9781350224896
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
oapen.pages264
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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