Notions of Privacy at Early Modern European Courts: Reassessing the Public and Private Divide, 1400-1800

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Dustin M. Neighbors is the project coordinator and a postdoctoral researcher for the EU-Horizon funded project Colour4CRAFTS at the University of Helsinki. His main area of research is on monarchy and court culture with an emphasis on the performativity of gender political and material culture cultural practices and history (i.e. hunting) within sixteenth and seventeenth-century Northern Europe and the employment of digital research methods. Lars Cyril Nørgaard is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He was awarded an international postdoctoral fellowship from the Independent Research Foundation Denmark. His research interests include but are not limited to the tension between religious seclusion and societal engagement the relationship between manuscript text print paratext and image and the ambiguous nature of premodern privacy. Elena Woodacre is Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester. She is a specialist in queenship and royal studies and has published extensively in this area. She is the editor-in-chief of the Royal Studies Journal and two book series with Routledge and ARC Humanities Press. Her most recent monographs include a biography of Joan of Navarre (2022) and Queens and Queenship (2021).