1st Edition
Order, Materiality, and Urban Space in the Early Modern Kingdom of Sweden
By Riitta Laitinen
Copyright 2017
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Riitta Laitinen is a research fellow in the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku.
