Autorentext

Michael Green is University Professor at the Filip Friedman Centre for Jewish Studies, and director of the Centre for Self-Narratives, University of Lodz. He specialises in early modern religious culture, notions of privacy, and self-narratives. He is the author of, among others, The Huguenot Jean Rou (1638-1711): Scholar, Educator, Civil Servant (2015), and the co-founder of the International Egodocumental Network.

Joanna Orzel is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, University of Lodz. She specialises in the history of the culture of the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, and the history of travel in the early modern era.

Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik is a literary studies scholar, translator, and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lodz. She serves as the President of the Polish Shakespeare Society and deputy editor of the journal Multicultural Shakespeare. Her research focuses on translation, theatre history, and early modern women.

Klappentext

The volume offers insight into the history of early modern Europe by bringing to the fore personal stories and identities that were articulated and negotiated in relation to the notions of privacy in writing by both elite figures and non-elite groups living in the dynamic European landscape during the emergence of modernity.