1st Edition
Death Control in the West 1500–1800 Sex Ratios at Baptism in Italy, France and England
Introduction: Grim reckonings from European archives, Part I: Italy, 1. Introduction to Italian demography after the Council of Trent, 2. Montefollonico: Infanticide by married couples in Early Modern Tuscany, 3. Torrita di Siena 1580-1770, or the high cost of cheap food, 4. Pavia in Lombardy 1576-1700: The importance of neighbourhood, 5. Parma 1500-1800: Girls before boys, 6. Mountain demography during the Little Ice Age, 7. Three Piacentino towns: Cortemaggiore, Fiorenzuola, Castel San Giovanni: A terrible synchrony, Part II: Southwestern France, 8. Introduction to Aquitaine during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries, 9. Agen: Aquitaine’s complicated second city, 1600-1715, 10. Sex-selective infanticide in Villeneuve-sur-Lot 1610-1711, 11. Infanticide by married couples in Marmande, 1605-1711, 12. The massacre of the innocents: Routine infanticide in Mézin, 1649-1743, 13. Layrac 1628-1711: A typical confessionally mixed community, 14. Nérac: A Huguenot stronghold in Gascony, 15. Bergerac in Perigord, Calvinist bastion in Aquitaine, Part III: England, 16. Infanticide and sex ratios in England 1550-1750, 17. Leeds: A sprawling workshop of Western Yorkshire, 18. Sex ratios in an idyllic country town: Dorchester, Conclusion: Endless possibilities
Biography
Gregory Hanlon is George Munro Chair Distinguished Research Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is a French-trained behavioural historian of early modern Europe and author of ten books to date on disparate themes. Two ground-breaking titles relevant here are Community and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century France (1993) and Human Nature in Rural Tuscany (2003).
