Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe / edited by Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Käfer, Natacha Klein.

Contributor:

Perez, Natália da Silva.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Intellectual life--History.

Intellectual life.

Women--History.

Women.

Europe--History--1492-.

Europe.

Social History.

Cultural History.

Intellectual History.

Women's History / History of Gender.

History of Early Modern Europe.

Local Subjects:

Social History.

Cultural History.

Intellectual History.

Women's History / History of Gender.

History of Early Modern Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham Springer Nature 2024

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The practices of Jane Lumley in England, Camila Herculiana in Padua, Victorine de Chastenay in Paris, as well as Elisabeth Sophie Marie and Philippine Charlotte in Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, will help us to exemplify the delicate balance between audacity and obedience that women had to employ to be able to explore science, literature, philosophy, theology, and other types of learned activities. Cases range from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, presenting continuities and discontinuities across temporal and geographical lines of the strategies that women used to protect their knowledge production and retain intact their reputations as good Christian daughters, wives, and mothers. Taken together, the essays show how having access to privacy—the ability to regulate access to themselves while studying and learning—was a crucial condition for the success of the knowledge activities these women pursued. Natacha Klein Käfer is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Natália da Silva Perez is Assistant Professor of Popular Culture in Historical Perspective in the School of History, Culture and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Contents:

Situating Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Context

References

Lady Jane Lumley’s Private Education and Its Political Resonances

Introduction: Education at a Noble Household

The Private, the Public, and the Political in Lady Lumley’s Writings

Lady Lumley’s The Tragedie of Euripides Called Iphigeneia

Comparing Translations of Iphigenia at Aulis

In Conclusion

Camilla Herculiana (Erculiani): Private Practices of Knowledge Production

Herculiana’s Private Life and Connections: Biographical and Contextual Framework

Camilla Herculiana é Gregetta, Lettere di philosophia naturale (1584)

Inquisitional Trial

Conclusion

From Behind the Folding Screen to the Collège de France: Victorine de Chastenay’s Privacy Dynamics for Knowledge in the Making

Note-Taking and Knowledge Acquisition as Private Practices

Adapting the Household’s Privacy to Reconcile Writing and Social Obligations

Privacy in Institutional Spaces

“Fait à mes heures de loisir”: Women’s Private Libraries as Spaces of Learning and Knowledge Production

The Ducal Libraries: Private Collections?

Elisabeth Sophie Marie and Philippine Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel The Duchesses’ Book Use and Knowledge Production

Private Knowledge Spaces: Concluding Remarks

Contingent Privacies: Knowledge Production and Gender Expectations from 1500 to 1800

Women’s Knowledges and Publicizing the Private

Knowledge Production at Home

Women, Knowledge, and Their Bodies

References.

ISBN:

9783031447310

303144731X

OCLC:

1419055536