The Black Death
Window of opportunity or disaster? Demographic growth, stagnation and decline in the County of Hainaut (1349-1541)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22059450 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joris Roosen (0000-0002-3032-399X, Maastricht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 157-173 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | De Medio Aevo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2255-5889 • E-ISSN: 2255-5889 |
| Publisher | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5209/dmae.83467 |
| OpenAlex | W4309602346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
Historians have observed a strong degree of divergence in population trends after the Black Death across Europe. A comprehensive explanation for this divergence is still missing and previous scholarship has cited the importance of either endogenous or exogenous factors. The most prominent exogenous factor cited in the literature is regional variation in the impact of the Black Death and repeat plague outbreaks, while explanations referring to the effect of endogenous factors have pointed to the role of fertility as a prime mover in long-term demographic developments instead. This article will use the County of Hainaut in the southern Low Countries as a case study to analyze the effect of endogenous socio-institutional factors on diverging regional population developments. However, by using data from a single (nearly) continuous source of mortmain accounts, this analysis will also take into account long-term mortality trends. This article concludes that diverging regional population trends after the Black Death in the County of Hainaut are mostly due to endogenous societal factors and not differentials in exogenous mortality trends in the long-run
Demographic change · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Population · Population growth · Scholarship · Sociology · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
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How the West “Invented” Fertility Restriction
Manors and markets. Economy and society in the Low Countries (500-1600)
The jump‐start of the Holland economy during the late‐medieval crisis, c.1350–c.1500 1
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
Peuplement de la France du Nord entre le Xe et le XVIe siècles
The social and economie effects of plague in the Low Countries
Early Proto-Industrialization in the Low Countries ? The Importance and Nature of Market-Oriented Non-Agricultural Activities on the Countryside in Flanders and Holland, c. 1250-1570
Severity and Selectivity of the Black Death and Recurring Plague in the Southern Netherlands (1349-1450)
Rural wage labour in the sixteenth-century Low Countries
Reciprocal exchange, credit and cash
People and land
The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War
Population Density in Fifteenth Century France and the Low Countries
The pro to‐industrial family economy
Cities, Regions and the Late Medieval Crisis
Le contact Cambrésis-Thiérache
Servitudes et temps de guerre (1480)
Proto-industrialization
The impact of land accumulation and consolidation on population trends in the pre-industrial period
Herchies, un village du Hainaut (1267-1314)
The Transition in the Low Countries
Les deux groupes de Coutumes du Nord (Première partie)
L'histoire rurale de la France du Nord de la fin du Moyen Âge au xxe siècle
Le privilège de masculinité dans le droit coutumier de la Belgique et du Nord de la France
The 'light touch' of the Black Death in the Southern Netherlands
Les profits de l'éleveur et du cultivateur dans le Hainaut a la fin du Moyen Age
L'histoire immobile
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |