Epidemics in Renaissance Florence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11040154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan S Morrison, Julius Kirshner, Anthony Molho |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 528-535 |
| Publication date | 1985-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.75.5.528 |
| PMID | 3885766 |
| OpenAlex | W1970494684 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 7 |
Epidemics and mortality in 15th and 16th century Florence, Italy, were investigated by use of records of the government-sponsored Dowry Fund. These records contain the date of birth, date of investment, and date of dowry payment or death of 19,000 girls and women. Major epidemics ("plagues") occurred repeatedly. The most severe were in 1430, 1437-38, 1449-50, 1478-79, and 1527-31. Annual death rates of girls enrolled in the Dowry Fund increased by 5 to 10 times in each of these periods. During the last period, at least 20-25 per cent of the population of Florence is likely to have died. Recurrent epidemics accounted for 38 per cent of the total mortality experienced by girls enrolled in the Dowry Fund. The frequency of serious epidemics diminished with the passage of time, and overall mortality declined by about 10 per cent over the 15th and 16th centuries. Epidermic mortality was not consistently related to age. The effects of epidemics were most severe in the summer and autumn. Non-epidemic mortality was also greater in the summer and autumn than in the winter and spring
Dowry · Environmental health · Geography · Mortality rate · Political science · Population · The Renaissance · Demography · Historical and modern epidemiology studies · History · Law · Medicine
Platonic tradition and Early Modern theory of epidemics
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Deception and Marriage Strategy in Renaissance Florence
GDP effects of pandemics
Should We Teach That the Cause of the Black Death Was Bubonic Plague
Open Elite? Social Mobility, Marriage, and Family in Florence, 1282–1494
The Political Economy of Status Competition
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Archival of the Dermatologic Condition
Deaths, Marriages, Births, and the Tuscan Economy (ca. 1300–1550)
Les hommes et la peste en France et dans les pays européens et méditerranéens des origines à 1850
The 'Bills of Mortality' of Florence
The Dowry Fund and the Marriage Market in Early Quattrocento Florence
The `Bills of Mortality' of Florence
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 2024 (37) |
| Highly cited | No |