Order, Materiality, and Urban Space in the Early Modern Kingdom of Sweden / / Riitta Laitinen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Laitinen, Riitta,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 4 halftones

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 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 Gate -- The 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 Space -- Space 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 -- Bibliography -- Index