Introduction Part I: Setting the Stage: The Kingdom of Sweden and Its Towns 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 Town Gate The Extent and the Centre of the Town Regulating Burgher Mobility with Detention in Town Townspeople on the Move Controlling Incoming Strangers 2. The Undesirable Vagrants - Exclusion or Inclusion? Timethieves and Beggars Inspecting, Banishing and Housing Vagrants Loose or Settled: Sailors and Soldiers and the Town Ordering Women in the Margins 3. Banishing 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 the 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 Home Closed and Porous Boundaries Violent Invasion of a Home Public, Private and the Protected Home Open House and Intimacy Entering and Exiting: Male Sociability and Transactions Conclusions