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

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-18375-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laitinen, Riitta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Glossary, Introduction, Part I: Setting the Stage: The Kingdom of Sweden and Its Towns, Part II: Coming, Going and Staying: The Town and the Community, Part III: Living Together - Urban Home, Conclusions, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Riitta Laitinen is a research fellow in the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku.