POPULATIONS IN MEDIEVAL CITIES

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POPULATIONS IN MEDIEVAL CITIES

• Inna Guzenfeld
• Christine Bourgeois

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LARGEST CITY POPULATIONS IN THOUSANDS
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MEDIEVAL CITIES LARGE AND SMALL
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RISING CITIES

• Paris
• 25th largest gt 1st largest
• Naples
• 11th largest gt 2nd largest
• Milan
• not in the picture gt 3rd largest
• Granada
• 15th largest gt 5th largest
• Lisbon
• 29th largest gt 7th largest
• Florence
• 30th largest gt 11th largest

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FALLING CITIES

• Palermo
• 2nd largest gt 12th largest
• Seville
• 3rd largest gt 22nd largest
• Cordova
• 1st largest gt out of the picture
• Salerno
• 4th largest gt out of the picture

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FACTORS IN POPULATION GROWTH

• Rural orientation of Medieval ruling class
• Commerce
• The rise of the bourgeoisie
• Black Plague (1347-1350)
• Gradual shift of European economy northward
• Economic prosperity (and lack thereof)
• Absolutist regimes

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SOURCES

• DeLong, Bradford J., Shleifer, A. (1993).
  Princes and merchants European city growth
  before the industrial revolution. Journal of Law
  and Economics, 36.2, 671-702.
• http//www.york.ac.uk/teaching/history/pjpg/cities
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