Privacy, Extraction, and Extreme Environments: The Miner, the Hermit, and the First Architect

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. Power, Concealment, and Knowledge: An Introduction to Privacy in Early Modern Saxony 1
6. From Private Ritual to the Public Good: Childbirth and Midwifery in the Writings of Anna of Saxony (1532–85) 15
7. Privacy and Healing between Public Discourse and Daily Practice: The Case of Anna of Saxony and Nikolaus Selnecker 41
8. Alchemy and Privacy at the Court of Saxony in Dresden during the Sixteenth Century 59
9. Intimate Entertainments: Andreas Orthelius’ Opera Philosophica and Private Alchemical Practice 77
10. Privacy, Extraction, and Extreme Environments: The Miner, the Hermit, and the First Architect 97
11. On Problems of Distinguishing Private from Political Libels: Three Cases from Electoral Saxony 129
12. Private Marriages: A Case from the Consultationes Constitutionum Saxonicarum (1599–1601) 159
13. Tracking Privacy in Early Modern Saxony: An Epilogue 175
14. List of Contributors 187
15. Index 189