List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction. The Private in the Public: Scandinavia in the Eighteenth Century, Sari Nauman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Helle Vogt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part 1. Situating the private 1. ‘Only to the benefit of some private persons’: The concept of ‘private’ in records from the Swedish estates assembly, 1521–1731, Charlotte Christensen-Nugues (Lund University, Sweden) 2. Private as an economic concept: Natural law and economic agency, Pernille Ulla Knudsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part 2. Communication 3 Talking in private – and keeping it private: Protecting conversations from exposure in Swedish Pietism investigations, 1723–1728, Johannes Ljungberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 4. Private news: Private letters as a source of news in eighteenth-century Copenhagen newspapers, Jørgen Mührmann-Lund (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway) 5. Commercial newspaper and public shame pole: Exposure of individuals in the Copenhagen gazette Adresseavisen 1759–73, Jesper Jakobsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 6. Of chamber pots and scorned houses: Exposing hidden bodies and, private matters in eighteenth-century Copenhagen, Camilla Schjerning (Odense City Museums, Denmark) Part 3. Spaces 7. Spaces for comfort, seclusion and privacy in a Swedish eighteenth-century town, Dag Lindström (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Göran Tagesson (National Historical Museums, Sweden) 8. In death, nothing is private!: Public registration of the private home, Pernille Ulla Knudsen, (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 9. Public order and the experiment of implementing privacy in eighteenth-century Copenhagen, Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 10. Murder at the threshold: Private and public in an early modern peasant rebellion, Sari Nauman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Bibliography Index

The ‘cultural turn’ in the humanities has generated a wealth of new research topics and approaches. The books in this series provide fascinating insights into the past, focusing on the ways in which representations, perceptions and negotiations shaped people’s lived experiences. The series covers early modern culture in its broadest sense, inclusive of (but not restricted to) themes such as gender, identity, communities, mentalities, emotions, communication, ritual, space, food and drink, and material culture. In terms of regional coverage, volumes range from the Mediterranean world via western Europe and the British Isles to northern and eastern parts of the Continent. SERIES EDITORS Brian Cowan is Associate Professor of History at McGill University, Canada. Publications include The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse (2005), and The State Trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell (2012). He contributed to the Multigraph Collective's Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Age of Print Saturation (2018). He is also the (co-)editor of The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England (2021) and President of the Board of Directors for the international research group 'Sociabilities in the Long Eighteenth Century'. Beat Kümin is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Warwick, UK, where he co-ordinates the Warwick Network for Parish Research & serves as an academic lead of the Global Research Priority on Food. Publications include Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe (2007) and Imperial Villages: Cultures of Political Freedom in the German Lands (2019). He is also the (co-)editor of A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age (2012), Pfarreien in der Vormoderne (2017) and The European World 1500-1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History (4th edn, 2023). EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Valerie Capdeville (Rennes 2 University, France) Adam Fox (Edinburgh University, UK) Robert Frost (Aberdeen University, UK) Molly Greene (Princeton University, USA) Francisca Loetz (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington, USA) Gerd Schwerhoff (Dresden University, Germany) Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, USA)