Home, Urban Space and Gendered Practices in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Turku

Urban space has most often been studied from the perspective of what is conceived public space, that is, civic and religious buildings, streets, taverns and market places. The domestic space of the town has received relatively little attention. ¹ The home has been studied mostly in the fields of family and gender history, and the space of the home has ended up as something that is somehow outside of the (shared) urban. How, and in what context, the home is discussed needs to be expanded.