Bram Van Besouw
Biographic Data
| ID | 1205387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bram Van Besouw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bram |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Besouw |
| SIGNATURE | VAN BESOUW B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6897-3288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Epidemic Mortality and Redistribution of Housing Wealth in Leiden, 1632–68
How did epidemic mortality affect housing wealth in the pre-industrial period? Using new data on house ownership and variation in street-level mortality in seventeenth-century Leiden, we show that although epidemic mortality targeted poor streets where residents were typically tenants and not owners, these outbreaks still increased the turnover of houses. Ordinarily, turnover was higher in owner-occupied housing sectors, while epidemics created m…
Household, family, and community responses to the direct costs of epidemics
Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth-century rural community
Economic historians have tried to better understand how and why land was redistributed in rural communities, although our empirical insights have been limited by a lack of serial evidence for land distribution within the same locality across a long period. This article exploits the unusual survival of Veldboeken (field books), which allow a careful annual reconstruction of land distribution within an unremarkable seventeenth-century village in th…
Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period
Early modern warfare in Western Europe exposed civilian populations to violence, hardship, and disease. Despite limited empirical evidence, the ensuing mortality effects are regularly invoked by economic historians to explain patterns of economic development. Using newly collected data on adult burials and war events in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, we estimate early modern war-driven mortality in localities close to military activity. W…
Roeland Goorts. War, State and Society in Liège
The Prince-Bishopric
Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period
Early modern warfare in Western Europe exposed civilian populations to violence, hardship, and disease. Despite limited empirical evidence, the ensuing mortality effects are regularly invoked by economic historians to explain patterns of economic development. Using newly collected data on adult burials and war events in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, we estimate early modern war-driven mortality in localities close to military activity. W…
Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth-century rural community
Economic historians have tried to better understand how and why land was redistributed in rural communities, although our empirical insights have been limited by a lack of serial evidence for land distribution within the same locality across a long period. This article exploits the unusual survival of Veldboeken (field books), which allow a careful annual reconstruction of land distribution within an unremarkable seventeenth-century village in th…
Roeland Goorts. War, State and Society in Liège
The Prince-Bishopric
Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period
Early modern warfare in Western Europe exposed civilian populations to violence, hardship, and disease. Despite limited empirical evidence, the ensuing mortality effects are regularly invoked by economic historians to explain patterns of economic development. Using newly collected data on adult burials and war events in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, we estimate early modern war-driven mortality in localities close to military activity. W…
Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth-century rural community
Economic historians have tried to better understand how and why land was redistributed in rural communities, although our empirical insights have been limited by a lack of serial evidence for land distribution within the same locality across a long period. This article exploits the unusual survival of Veldboeken (field books), which allow a careful annual reconstruction of land distribution within an unremarkable seventeenth-century village in th…
Epidemic Mortality and Redistribution of Housing Wealth in Leiden, 1632–68
How did epidemic mortality affect housing wealth in the pre-industrial period? Using new data on house ownership and variation in street-level mortality in seventeenth-century Leiden, we show that although epidemic mortality targeted poor streets where residents were typically tenants and not owners, these outbreaks still increased the turnover of houses. Ordinarily, turnover was higher in owner-occupied housing sectors, while epidemics created m…
Household, family, and community responses to the direct costs of epidemics
Economics (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Agriculture (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works)