Measure of Multitude - Population in Medieval Thought

Zusatztext Peter Biller ends his book with a question: is medieval demographic thought recognisably there? He has left his readers with only one possible answer - and in doing so changed the way we must think not just about the medieval past but about what has come after in terms of understanding the world. Klappentext Peter Biller's innovative study challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He describes what medieval people 'thought' about population, studying the texts which constrained their thought, and examining the medieval realities which shaped it, such as birth, birth-control, sex-ratio, marriage ages, length of life, and the population of the Holy Land. Zusammenfassung Peter Biller's innovative study challenges the view that medieval thought was fundamentally abstract. He describes what medieval people 'thought' about population, studying the texts which constrained their thought, and examining the medieval realities which shaped it, such as birth, birth-control, sex-ratio, marriage ages, length of life, and the population of the Holy Land.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Biller, Peter (Professor of History Biller, Biller Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2001
• EAN: 9780198206323
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820632-3
• No. of pages: 506
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History of Ideas, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, HISTORY / Social History, CE period up to c 1500, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, British Isles, Population & demography, Population and Demography, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval