Mapping the ’i’: Research on Self-Narratives in Germany and Switzerland

CLAUDIA ULBRICH, Prof. Dr. phil., FU Berlin, is Professor of Early Modern History and Gender History. She is the author of Shulamit and Margarete. Power, Gender and Religion in a Rural Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe, transl. by Thomas Dunlap (Brill 2004).KASPAR VON GREYERZ, Emeritus Professsor of Early Modern History, University of Basel. He is the author of Vorsehungsglaube und Kosmologie. Studien zu englischen Selbstzeugnissen des 17. Jahrhunderts, and of Passagen und Stationen. Lebensstufen zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne, Göttingen 1990 and 2010, respectively.LORENZ HEILIGENSETZER, Dr. phil., deputy head, manuscript and rare books collection, University Library Basel. He is the author of Getreue Kirchendiener - gefährdete Pfarrherren. Deutschschweizer Prädikanten des 17. Jahrhunderts in ihren Lebensbeschreibungen, Cologne etc. 2006, and has edited Alexander Bösch, Liber familiarium personalium [...], Basel 2001.

In Mapping the 'I' the contributors, working with egodocuments, offer various historical approaches on early modern concepts of personhood and autobiographical writing practices. The contributions address themes such as the body, food, the economy, group cultures and suicide.