Burghers, Soldiers, and Widows: Social Building Blocks at Nya Lödöse

Rosén, Christina; Larsson, Daniel

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“…Historical sources from New Lödöse give witness of numerous conflicts and court trials where inhabitants accuse one another for loosely living, rule breaking sexual behaviour, infidelity, inter-personal violence and theft. Even if the records reveal that men were more exposed to violence in daily life compared to women, there is evidence of physical abuse of females ranging from beating to rape [ 63 ]. Assessment of age at death in New Lödöse presents clear evidence that a higher proportion of women compared to men died before the age of 40, reflecting the general trend in medieval and early modern historical populations.…”

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Dental markers of biocultural sex differences in an early modern population from Gothenburg, Sweden: caries and other oral pathologies

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Background With the aim to study dental pathological lesions in an early Swedish modern population, with special reference to sex variances of dental caries, the prevalence and distribution of dental caries and tooth wear were determined in complete and partial human dentitions from an early modern-time city graveyard (1500–1620) excavated in Gamlestaden, Gothenburg, Sweden. Methods Partial and complete dentitions were examined through visual inspection and using a dental probe. Pathologies were studied, evaluated and presented by teeth and alveoli. Results The study population consisted of 308 individuals. A total of 4,951 teeth in adults and 1,660 teeth in children were examined. Caries prevalence in the studied population was 55% and the highest prevalence of caries was found among the adults, where 68% of the individuals had at least one carious lesion. Caries experience (DMT > 0) in the entire population was 60%, and among adults caries experience was 76%. Women had significantly higher caries experience than men (p < 0.05). Caries was most prevalent in the molar teeth and least prevalent in the incisors and canines. Significant age-related increases in tooth wear were found, and a positive correlation between wear in molars and incisors (p < 0.001). Other clinical findings were signs of apical lesions, crowding of teeth, aplasia, non-erupted canines and calculus. Conclusions Findings show that dental pathological lesions affected a majority of the studied population, and indicate that women were more predisposed to dental disease than their male counterparts. Results are discussed from a multi-factorial explanation model including dietary, physiological and cultural etiological factors.

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“…In terms of towns and fortification, the development is relatively slow, with certain partial exceptions, like in the case of the castle of Kalmar and the Castle of Stockholm, both oriented towards the Baltic Sea. However, none of these involved a general fortification of the town as such (Larsson, 2018). In the seventheenth century there were two projects at Kalmar which involved a general fortification of large segments of the town, first, in a star form partially resembling Palmanova.…”

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“…In the seventheenth century there were two projects at Kalmar which involved a general fortification of large segments of the town, first, in a star form partially resembling Palmanova. This particular Kalmar project was physically initiated at the terrain but eventually abandoned, and later in the same century a more Baroque fortified town of a relatively small size was constructed (Larsson, 2018;Tagesson, 2018;Ahlberg, 2005).…”

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“…In the case of the Göta Estuary region, in today's western Sweden, the Swedish state only slowly came to gain full control. An important project from the late fifteenth century was the town of Nya Lödöse (Alin, 1913;Rosén, Larsson, 2018;Öbrink, Nielsen, Williams, 2018;Hjertman, Naumann, Vretemark, Williams, Kjellin, 2018;Cornell, Larsson, 2016;Cornell, Rosén, Öbrink, 2014), which from the middle of the sixteenth century came to play an important role in as an harbour for the intensified export of wood-based products and iron, initially to Lübeck and other Hansa towns, eventually to England and later to the Dutch area (Cornell, Nilsson, Palm, Rosén, 2018). The town had less than 2000 inhabitants; it was a large town for being Sweden (Rosén, 2018(Rosén, , 2011Eliassen, 2018), but in a broader west European perspective it was still a small town in 1500.…”

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Town and Fortification in the Early Modern. A complex relation-ship

Cornell

2020

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Which is the relationship between town and fortification? In a traditional perspective this has largely been considered a question of defense of the civilian population. However, this factor, though certainly important in several cases, cannot be seen as the only relevant factor addressing the problem. There are also other traditional explanations. One of these relates to questions of paying custom for selling and buying items. The fortified enclosure would make control of payment easier. A third factor, also frequently mentioned has to do with general control of a population inside the walls, i.e. controlling movement. These factors, but also several others, will be briefly discussed in relation to a set of primary examples from the Swedish realm, but also certain examples beyond the Swedish context, mainly taken from the Mediterranean macro-region. Most certainly, the relative relevance of various factors is not always the same, and this variability may be of major importance when addressing major fortification. Accepting for variability will allow us to start to understand better certain general problems, and will illustrate the importance of looking closer at the evidence (in form of texts, drawings, tangible remains, etc.).

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“…No parts of the town were specially designated to any special groups. 8 A GIS analysis of early eighteenth-century Copenhagen by a Dane, Mads Linnet Perner, suggests that the urban space was horizontally segregated to the streets of the wealthy and to the alleys of the poor, although they could live very close to each other. 9 However, Rosén and Larsen posit that segregation in small urban centers in Sweden may have changed during the first half of the seventeenth century.…”

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Urban Segregation in a Nordic Small Town in the Late-Seventeenth Century: Residential Patterns in Sortavala at the Eastern Borderland of the Swedish Realm

Katajala

Härkönen

2021

Journal of Urban History

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The general view of urban segregation in pre-modern towns has been that the wealthy lived near the administrative and economic center(s), while the poor were pushed to the limits of the town. This approach has been questioned by studies proving that urban spaces were socially mixed. This dilemma has been studied here by examining in detail the urban segregation in one small town, Sortavala, at the eastern borderland of the Swedish realm. The analysis shows that the town space was bipolarly segregated. The “gentry,” officeholders and the like, lived near the market square and town hall; the wealthy burghers along the main street. However, even the poorest taxpayers lived among the wealthy and those of high social rank. The segregation was relative: the proportion of the wealthy grew in the grid plan in the town center; the settlements growing “freely” outside the original grid plan were for the poor only.

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Burghers, Soldiers, and Widows: Social Building Blocks at Nya Lödöse

Cited by 5 publications

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Dental markers of biocultural sex differences in an early modern population from Gothenburg, Sweden: caries and other oral pathologies

Dental markers of biocultural sex differences in an early modern population from Gothenburg, Sweden: caries and other oral pathologies

Town and Fortification in the Early Modern. A complex relation-ship

Urban Segregation in a Nordic Small Town in the Late-Seventeenth Century: Residential Patterns in Sortavala at the Eastern Borderland of the Swedish Realm

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