Disease Disaster and Death in Mid Tudor England

In this magisterial study, Dr Moore marshals twenty-years'' of research to examine the impact of extraordinary high mortality rates from influenza and typhus upon a population already weakened by ecomomic decline and a series of poor harvests. Drawing particularly upon parish registers, he demonstrates that the period witnessed a much higher drop in population than has been hitherto accepted, that in turn leads to much revised population trends for England during the early modern period.