Kaplan, Benjamin;
(2023)
“Quietly in His Own Home”: The Language of Privacy in Early Modern Freedom of Conscience Laws.
In: Bruun, Mette Birkedal and Kafer, Natacha Klein and Nauman, Sari, (eds.)
Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Privacy.
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
(In press).
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Abstract
This chapter undertakes a textual analysis of laws issued in early modern France, the Dutch Republic, and the Holy Roman Empire that granted ‘freedom of conscience’ to religious dissenters. The laws articulated a right held by individuals to engage privately in religious behaviours that were prohibited in public. The laws identified the space where freedom of conscience could be enjoyed in spatial, sensory, and domestic terms, equating that space with the house or home of an individual or family. In this way, the laws articulated what might be called a (limited) right to private religious dissent, and demonstrate that it is not anachronistic to speak of ‘privacy’ in the early modern era.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | “Quietly in His Own Home”: The Language of Privacy in Early Modern Freedom of Conscience Laws |
| Publisher version: | https://academic.oup.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | early modern Europe, religious toleration, privacy law |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157907 |
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