Effects of Pestilence and Plague, 1315-1385

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2106678
AutoresJosiah C Russell (Texas College, autor correspondente)
Ano1966
Volume8
Fascículo4
Páginas464-473
Data de publicação1966-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500004230
OpenAlexW1988085567
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas8

The costs of poor health conditions are difficult to estimate for the Middle Ages. It is possible to establish in a tentative way a normal distribution by age and sex and to define what additional damage pestilence and plague did. One possible index is the number of able bodied persons (assuming persons of a definite age to be able bodied) compared to children, a dependency index. A second index is of the relative number of persons dying before they completed their life as able bodied persons. A third, not related to age, might be the number of persons too poor to pay certain taxes before and after the plague. Such persons were presumably too poor in part because of age or ill health

Archaeology · Geography · Index (typography) · Plague (disease) · Sociology · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Medicine · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Gerontology