Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe

Chapter 1 Language, Settings, and Networks for Early Modern Private Conversations

Chapter 2 Talking About Religion During Religious War: Gilles de Gouberville, Normandy, 1562

Chapter 3 When Private Speech Goes Public: Libertinage, Crypto-Judaic Conversations, and the Private Literary World of Jean Fontanier 1621

Chapter 4 Talking Privately in Utopia: Ideals of Silence and Dissimulation in Smeeks’ Krinke Kesmes (1708)

Chapter 5 “Alone Amongst Ourselves”: How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist, Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–1597)

Chapter 6 “We Take Care of Our Own”: Talking about ‘Disability’ in Early Modern Netherlandish Households

Chapter 7 “So that I Never Fail to Warn and Admonish”: Pastoral Care and Private Conversation in a Seventeenth-century Reformed Village

Chapter 8 “The Secret Sin That One Commits by Thought Alone”: Confession as Private and Public in Seventeenth-Century France

Chapter 9 Marital Conversations: Using Privacy to Negotiate Marital Conflicts in Adam Eyre’s Diary, 1647–1649

Chapter 10 “Unnecessary Conversations”: Talking Sex in the Early Modern Polish Village

Chapter 11 Multimedia Conversations: Love and Lovesickness in Sixteenth-century Italian Single-sheet Prints

Chapter 12 Towards Further Studies of Private Conversations