From One Mortality Regime to Another? Mortality Crises in Late Medieval Haarlem, Holland, in Perspective
This article employs a large database of 10,360 deaths taken from registrations of graves dug and church bells tolled at Haarlem between the years 1412 and 1547—one of the largest samples and longest series of mortality evidence ever produced for medieval Holland—and systematically compares findings with a seventeenth-century burial register for the same city. It concludes that we should put aside any lingering notion that late medieval Holland was very lightly affected by epidemic diseases: in fact, in Haarlem, these mortality crises were more severe than those seen in the seventeenth century... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27114798 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/133043 |