The control of late ancient and medieval population / Josiah Cox Russell
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- 3037214
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- Author:
- Russell, Josiah Cox, 1900-
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- Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1985
- xv, 272 p. ; 27 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0871691604
- Series:
- Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 160.
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- Machine derived contents note: Tables ix
- Preface xi
- I. The Population of Pompeii and Rome. 1
- 1. The population of Pompeii 1
- 2. The mortality at Pompeii. 4
- 3. Rome as the imperial capital 8
- 4. Rome as an inland city. 12
- 5. Forma Urbis and Libellus de Regionibus 14
- 6. The grain and meat distributions. 20
- II. The Villages of the dead. 26
- 1. Death and burial customs. 26
- 2. Alignment and position of graves. 28
- 3. Value of skeletal evidence. 31
- 4. Graves and population. 35
- 5. Motivation and results of modern study 37
- III. To quicken the dead. 41
- 1. Bibliography and classification. 41
- 2. Problems of the data. 44
- 3. The Roman inscriptions. 46
- 4. The life table. 50
- 5. Living and dead populations. 52
- IV. How long did they live? 56
- 1. Old age expectation. 56
- 2. The maturus and adultus data. 61
- 3. Juvenis and infans II age groups. 62
- 4. Infans I. 66
- 5. Total length of life. 73
- V. Potential energy and dependency. 77
- 1. Age of employment. 77
- 2. Human size and inventions. 82
- 3. Dependency. 84
- 4. Lesser diseases. 87
- VI. The spread of tuberculosis in the West. 93
- 1. Early tuberculosis in the West. 93
- 2. General overview of mortality, ages 20-40. 96
- 3. North Africa, Italy, and the Balkans 100
- 4. Western Europe. 106
- VII. The earlier medieval plague in the British Isles 111
- 1. The alignment of graves. 111
- 2. Age and sex composition. 114
- 3. The first and second epidemics. 118
- 4. The third and later epidemics. 120
- 5. The effects of the plague. 122
- VIII. The earlier medieval plague on the Continent. 125
- 1. The Mediterranean countries and France. 125
- 2. The German data 128
- 3. The other Eastern areas. 131
- 4. A comparison of the earlier and later plagues 133
- IX. The threat of too many mouths. 139
- 1. The generation and replacement rates. 140
- 2. Potential fecundity and actual fertility. 142
- 3. Territoriality, matrimony and the household. 148
- 4. Why so few women. The sex ratio. 153
- 5. What happened to the children or infanticide. 158
- X. Population stability, A.D. 0-1000. 161
- 1. Conditions A.D. 1-312. 162
- 2. Fertility-conditions on the frontier. 166
- 3. Plague conditions A.D. 542-750. 169
- 4. The great empires. 172
- XI. The Medieval population crisis, 1000-1348. 177
- 1. The feudal expansion. 178
- 2. Nonfeudal experience. 183
- 3. The peasantry. 187
- 4. Sex ratio and marriage. 190
- 5. The age of regionalism. 192
- XII. Divergent trends of population control. 195
- 1. The course of the plague, 1348-1440. 196
- 2. The loss of population control in Southern Italy 198
- 3. The loss of population control in Northern Italy 203
- 4. Population conditions in England. 207
- 5. Other plague areas. 210
- XIII. Of interest to history. 214
- 1. Tests of demographic interests. 217
- 2. The strength of will to control. 221
- 3. Climate as a factor. 226
- 4. Migration. 229
- 5. Needed information. 231
- Appendix A. Burial of Heretics in the Middle Ages.
- Walter L. Wakefield. 236
- Appendix B. Bibliography of Sources. 240
- Index 265.
- Notes:
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- Title on cover: Late ancient and medieval population control.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 241-264.
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