Acknowledgements
This volume offers a multidisciplinary collection of studies that analyse early modern notions and spaces of privacy. In doing so, it investigates the historiographical implications of such an analysis. The volume has been conceptualised and collated under the auspices of the Centre for Privacy Studies (Privacy), funded by the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF 138), established in September 2017 and housed at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy ‒ Architecture, Design, Conservation. It springs from the interdisciplinary research at Privacy, and the editors’ work has been inspired and energised by our colleagues in the Privacy research team. We would like to thank Head of Administration Maj Riis Poulsen, assistant Thea Kjærulff Torp, and postdoctoral researcher Natália da Silva Perez, who, together with Michaël Green, oversaw the planning and delivery of a three-day conference at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen in April 2019. Our days there laid the groundwork for this volume, and we extend our thanks to the staff at the Royal Danish Academy and to all the scholars who generously shared their expertise in presentations and discussions: Ivana Bičak, Maarten Delbeke, Willem Frijhoff, Francesca Iurlaro, Christine Jeanneret, Natacha Klein Käfer, Pernille Ulla Knudsen, Mia Korpiola, Mathieu Laflamme, Hang Lin, Dag Lindström, Walter S. Melion, Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Anne Régent-Susini, Marian Rothstein, Thomas Max Safley, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, Göran Tagesson, Ditlev Tamm, Valeria Viola, and Lee Palmer Wandel. Special thanks are extended to Adam Horsley, David Lebovitch Dahl, and Ivana Bičak, who have assisted us in the editorial process.
Our sincere thanks are due to the authors for their willingness to engage with a slippery topic and for fruitful and committed academic interactions in the process. Finally, we express our gratitude to the anonymous peer reviewer and the editorial board of Intersections, especially to series editor Karl A.E. Enenkel for his support and helpful suggestions.