Demographic Aspects of the Early Modern Times: The Example of the Zurich Countryside in a European Perspective in Bloomington, MN

The study presents the oldest detailed mortality tables worldwide, for the year 1635, including model life tables. Mortality tables are also provided for the times of plague epidemics, something never done before. Gaps are also filled with population structures and age pyramids, with premarital sex and with the importance of remarriages.