Das Geheimnis am Beginn der europäischen Moderne

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This collection explores the theme of secrecy during the early modern period through various scholarly contributions. Klaus Reichert discusses new forms of secrecy at the dawn of modernity, while Alois Hahn examines the interplay between representation and secrecy. Horst Wenzel delves into the role of secret keepers in the tension between orality and literacy. Jonathan M. Elukin analyzes the maintenance of secrets in medieval and early modern English governance, and Linda Gregorson focuses on sexual scandals at the Tudor court. Melissa Meriam Bullard addresses the intersections of secrecy, diplomacy, and language in the Renaissance, while Robert A. Schneider reveals the contradictions surrounding state secrets in 17th-century France. Valentin Gröbner highlights the politics of information and corruption in 1513, and Leonida Teodoldi studies the Venetian inquisitorial system. Lynn Wood Mollenauer contrasts justice and secrecy in the Affair of the Poisons, and Jodi Campbell discusses the theme of secrecy in 17th-century Spanish drama. Other contributions include discussions on the construction of intimacy in Vermeer’s paintings, the rhetoric of sodomy during the Reformation, and the knowledge of midwives in early modern times. The anthology culminates in reflections on hierarchies of knowledge and the evolution of secrecy in historical thought.