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Author Laitinen, Riitta, author

Title Order, materiality and urban space in the early modern kingdom of Sweden / Riitta Laitinen
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations
Series Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies ; 8
Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies ; 8.
Contents Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Usage; Glossary; Introduction; Examining the Town and the Home: Spatial Rules, Spatial Practices and Court Sources; Spatiality and Materiality; The Chapters; Part I -- Setting the Stage: The Kingdom of Sweden and its Towns; The Swedish Empire and the Province of Finland; The Swedish Urban System; The Guild System; Turku and Its People; The Laws and the Judicial System; Part II -- Coming, Going and Staying: The Town and the Community; The Town and Its Space; 1. Ordering Everyday Mobility; Marking and Crossing Boundaries
Stopping at the Toll GateThe Extent and the Centre of the Town; Regulating Burgher Mobility with Detention in Town; Townspeople on the Move; Controlling Incoming Strangers; 2. Undesirable Vagrants -- Exclusion or Inclusion?; 'Time-thieves' and Beggars; Inspecting, Banishing and Housing Vagrants; Loose or Settled: Sailors and Soldiers and the Town; Ordering Women in the Margins; 3. Banishment and Lawbreakers; Banishment, Law and Crime; Spatial Exclusion and Rehabilitation of Thieves; Getting Rid of Miscreants?; The Banished and the Town; Community That Banishes
Part III -- Living Together: Urban Home, Urban SpaceSpace and Urban Home; 1. Organizing Urban Dwelling; Urban Turku Space: Small Houses and Central Yards; Household and Holding House; Tenancy and Control over Space; The Order and Disorder of Lodging; The Servants' Place in Town; 2. Spatial Rules of the Urban Homes; Closed and Porous Boundaries; Violent Invasion of a Home; Public, Private, and the Protected Home; Open Homes and Intimacy; Entering and Exiting: Male Sociability and Transactions; Conclusions; The Town; Home; Bibliography; Index; List of Maps and Illustrations
Map 1 -- Map of seventeenth-century Turku with the toll fence, toll gates and the roads leading from the countryside to the market placeMap 2 -- The surroundings of Turku and the 1530 border of land owned by the town; Map 3 -- The earliest map of Turku is from 1634 and it is based on a survey by Olof Gangius. This copy was moved from Sweden to Finland aroun1809, when the text to the upper right corner was added.; Illustration 1 -- Depiction of seventeenth-century wooden houses in Turku with their yards, based on some archaeological research and written sources
Summary Our corporeality and immersion in the material world make us inherently spatial beings, and the fact that we all share everyday experiences in the global physical environment means that community is also spatial by nature. This book explores the relationship between the seventeenth-century townspeople of Turku, Sweden, and their urban surroundings. Riitta Laitinen offers a novel account of civil and social order in this early modern town, highlighting the central importance of materiality and spatiality and breaking down the dichotomy of public versus private life that has dominated traditional studies of the time period
Analysis spatiality, materliality, urban, early modern, order
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 14, 2017)
Subject Cities and towns -- Sweden -- History -- 17th century
Sociology, Urban -- Sweden -- History -- 17th century
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
Archaeology by period / region.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
HISTORY -- General.
Sociology, Urban
Cities and towns
Sweden
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048531004
9048531004
9789048531004