Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries, edited by Michaël Green and Ineke Huysman, investigates the origins of one of the most important notions of contemporary society: privacy. Based on case studies from the early modern Low Countries, privacy is tackled from various historical perspectives: social and cultural history, and the history of art and architecture.

The essays in this volume make a key contribution to the emergence of early modern privacy studies as a research field, and to the ongoing discussion of privacy in the Low Countries. Equally, these case studies can serve as models for the analysis of privacy in other European contexts.

Jana Byars (New Books Network) interviews co-editor Michael Green on how this book came about, and the concept of privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries.