Attending to Early Modern women: Remapping Routes and Spaces Workshop: Gender in the European Town: women’s impact on their urban communities

The international research network, Gender in the European Town, funded by the Danish Research council, has brought together new and established scholars from twelve countries to explore the place of gender in three interrelated areas that shaped the development of the earlymodern town: the economy, politics and civic identity, and real and imagined space. This workshop will draw upon the extensive conversations the project has engendered, not only about the changing dynamics of gender and towns over time, but also about the challenges posed in writing a comparative European history that extends beyond the Anglo-Franco-German axis to incorporate explicitly the Nordic region, thus raising questions both about the complexities of pan-European gendered ideals (and how and where these were intersected and/or modified by local or national norms), and about the nature of the European town itself.