rural population of Essex in the later Middle Ages

Series of data from Essex provide an index of aggregate population trends between the late thirteenth and the late sixteenth centuries, a period for which little evidence of a directly demographic nature has otherwise survived. This evidence was produced by the medieval frankpledge system, requiring...

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Published in:The Economic history review 1985-11, Vol.38 (4), p.515-530
Main Author: Poos, L.R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Demography
Depopulation
Easter
Epidemics
Health and Pathology
history
Jurisdiction
Mortality
Population dynamics
Population estimates
population structure
rural sociology
Socioeconomics
taxes
Towns
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Summary:Series of data from Essex provide an index of aggregate population trends between the late thirteenth and the late sixteenth centuries, a period for which little evidence of a directly demographic nature has otherwise survived. This evidence was produced by the medieval frankpledge system, requiring adolescent and adult males to be enrolled into collective surety groups called tithings, and consists of annual totals of tithing membership from thirteen Essex communities. The validity of these datasets can be confirmed by comparison with parochial, taxation, and manorial sources. An outline of late-medieval population change is thereby produced which is much firmer than was previously possible.
ISSN:0013-0117
1468-0289
DOI:10.2307/2597186