Foreword to the Series List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Privacy, Private Lives, and Egodocumental Research Michael Green, Joanna Orzel and Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik 1 Looking for Early Modern Egodocuments as Sources for Privacy Research in the Archives: Some Observations Michael Green 2 Intimacy as Mutual Knowledge: an Exploration of Privacy through French Personal Writings during the Early Modern Period François-Joseph Ruggiu 3 The Making of a Hero: Virginia Narratives of John Smith ( bap . 1580, d. 1631) and the Subtle Use of Privacy as a Tool to Promote Himself Jakub Basista 4 (De)Constructing Privacy, Describing Diplomatic Ties: Representations of Elizabeth I in Central European Egodocuments Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik 5 Lawsuits and Egodocuments on Sexual Intimacy in Early Modern Bilbao Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi 6 "Emotions" of a Parent during the Struggles of War: Lew Sapieha's Private Relationship with His Son Jan Stanislaw in Letters from 1626 Aleksandra Ziober 7 The Privacy of Princesses and Princes: Relations between Members of the Saxon House of Wettin in the Mid-Eighteenth Century Katarzyna Kuras 8 Privacy and Publicity in Early Modern Alba Amicorum from Central Europe Robert T. Tomczak 9 Privacy in the Last Will Acts of Vilnius Bourgeois Women from the First Half of the Eighteenth Century: Study of Selected Cases Bernadetta Manys 10 The Emergence of Privacy: Motivations and Self-Expression in Polish Noblewomen's Diaries and Memoirs in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Joanna Orzel 11 Bluestockings and Their Spaces of Privacy in Conversation and in Writing: the Case of Mary Hamilton (1756-1816) Nataliia Voloshkova 12 Public Duty and Private Life in Michael Conrad von Heydendorff's (1730-1821) Autobiography and Georg Michael Gottlieb von Herrmann's (1737-1807) Curriculum Vitae András Bándi Index locorum Index nominum.