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SUMMARY:Living la vita apostolica. Life expectancy and mortality of nuns i
 n late-medieval Holland - Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden)
DTSTART:20141204T170000Z
DTEND:20141204T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Data on vital events of medieval women are extremely scarce. W
 e use a dataset based on a necrology of nuns in late-medieval Holland to a
 rrive at estimates for the development of life expectancy and mortality. T
 he first study of its kind for the Low Countries\, it shows striking diffe
 rences in the development of life expectancy and mortality between Holland
  and England. In the fifteenth century\, life expectancy at age 25 in Holl
 and was much higher than in England. Also\, mortality among our population
  of nuns was much lower than among monks in England\, and mortality crises
  were less frequent. Our results support claims by Van Bavel and Van Zande
 n (2003) about the relatively early recovery of the population of Holland\
 , as well as the mild impact of infectious diseases. The comparison with E
 ngland suggests that this country’s crisis of the late Middle Ages was m
 ost likely the result of a high-mortality demographic regime.
LOCATION:Graham Storey Room\, Trinity Hall
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