Order, Materiality and Urban Space in the Early Modern Kingdom of Sweden

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 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 -- The Town -- Home -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Maps and Illustrations