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In early modern Europe, literacy was on the rise, and it became possible to reflect on one’s own life and secrets in private notes, letters to family and friends, as well as diaries, memoirs, and travelogues. Privacy in Early Modern Egodocuments: Personal Lives in Historical Perspective combines historical research with an analysis of personal narratives from Eastern, Central, and Western Europe (also in the global context) to discuss what privacy meant at a time of political and social turmoil. The contributions explore personal writings by elite figures, as well as non-elite groups and marginalised voices, in a detective-like fashion, bringing into focus narratives that have long been overlooked in traditional historical studies. The authors offer insights into the evolution of the concept of privacy as well as the use of egodocuments as a vital resource for understanding individual and collective memory, particularly as shaped by the region's dynamic history. Contributors are: András Bándi, Jakub Basista, Michael Green, Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi, Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik, Katarzyna Kuras, Bernadetta Manyś, Joanna Orzeł, François-Joseph Ruggiu, Robert T. Tomczak, Nataliia Voloshkova, and Aleksandra Ziober.

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Michael Green is University Professor at the Filip Friedman Centre for Jewish Studies, and director of the Centre for Self-Narratives, University of Lodz. He specialises in early modern religious culture, notions of privacy, and self-narratives. He is the author of, among others, The Huguenot Jean Rou (1638–1711): Scholar, Educator, Civil Servant (2015), and the co-founder of the International Egodocumental Network. Joanna Orzeł is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, University of Lodz. She specialises in the history of the culture of the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, and the history of travel in the early modern era. Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik is a literary studies scholar, translator, and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lodz. She serves as the President of the Polish Shakespeare Society and deputy editor of the journal Multicultural Shakespeare. Her research focuses on translation, theatre history, and early modern women.

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