Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe

Angela Vanhaelen is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Communicataion Studies at McGill University, Canada. Joseph Ward is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Mississippi, US.

Part I: Rethinking Habermas: Performative Publics 1. English Coffeehouses and French Salons: Rethinking Habermas, Gender and Sociability in Early Modern French and British Historiography Brian Cowan 2. What’s Hamlet to Habermas? Theatrical Publics and the Elizabethan Stage Steven Mullaney 3. Viewing the Paper Stage: Civil War, Print, Theatre and the Public Sphere Rachel Willie 4. Legal Space and Theatrical Publics Kelly Stage 5. Place, Space, and Public Formation in the Drama of the Spanish Empire Margaret R. Greer Part II: Spaces Between: Transforming Journeys and Geographies 6. Assembling the Archipelago: Early Modern Isolarii and the Journey to Constantinople Bronwen Wilson 7. "Now through you made public for everyone": Narrative, Mobility, and Nation-Building in the Peutinger Map and John Ogilby’s Britannia (1675) Meredith Donaldson Clark 8. Publicity, Representation, and the Vision of French Nationhood in Seventeenth-century Rome Elena Napolitano 9. Bridging Space and Publics: The Senses and the Social in early modern Venice Marlene Eberhart 10. Town and Country: The Geography of the English Literary Public Kevin Pask Part III: The Potential of the Private 11. Negotiating the ‘forum politicum’ and the ‘forum conscientiae’: John Calvin and the Religious Origins of the Modern Public Sphere Torrance Kirby 12. Painting the Visible Church Angela Vanhaelen 13. Matrices of Force: The Social Cartography of Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World Meredith Evans 14. Shakespeare and the Spaces of Publicity Paul Yachnin Afterword Darin Barney